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Optional extra would be to have the exact type of operating system thats in use, and a link to each vendors website.
In case somebody is looking for drivers or info or whatever.
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onesimus
wrote on the 15 Oct 08 at 14:59
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You could install sysinfo from the reposeteries.
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Yeah, I also think there should be an easier way to find out specifications.
I think both Windows and Mac OS X have some system profile out-of-the-box.
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I agree, and i guess you mean the "System" menu and not "System Settings". Computer Specifications sounds a little weird for a menu item IMO, my vote would be something like "Hardware Info".
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yeah.. that would be great, KDE has a great application called KIO-SYSINFO that opensuse already use it for a looong time, it's nice and good looking and come out of box.
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a lot of people dont know about sysinfo.
and having to know things in order to be able to do things is a bad thing.
also i see no reason to require installation of anything for this, this is just a tiny text file of a few kilobytes, needing to be upgraded only when installing a new operating system or detecting new hardware.
Also when we're running sysinfo i assume we're taking up some ram.. thats totally unnecessary for this functionality to take place.
@paul
im on kubuntu and on my menu theres only a "system settings" option, no "system" option.
yeah "hardware info" would probably be better.
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aidave
wrote on the 16 Oct 08 at 17:27
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System Monitor already shows you this (in GNOME anyways).
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And where is this System Monitor?
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cdenley
wrote on the 17 Oct 08 at 21:16
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System>Administation>System Monitor
under the system tab
Hardware
Memory: 999.6 MiB
Processor 0: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz
Processor 1: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz
This is under intrepid. I would assume hardy is the same.
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Im on kubuntu 8.04, and for me theres no administration under system.
But i do find kinfo center, where i can get this information.
but even in there it would be good to have a short, to the point overview of what my computer is.
and the name info-center, can be a lot of things.
better name would be like has already been stated above.. hardware info.
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but im meaning just a short overview of the major points about what kind of hardware im having.
and having that info under settings somewhere... without having install, launch or wade through anything.
Just one to-the-point page, nothing else.
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There's not really anything standard it could be included with, but I'd go for combining SysInfo with "Hardware Drivers" (the non-free drivers program), "Hardware Testing", and "Device Manager".
And some way to manage drivers would be nice as well.
In fact, let's clean up all the menus in Ubuntu.
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I thought there was a plan to combine "About Gnome" and "About Ubuntu" with "About this Computer," which would include this info?
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I'm impressed by sysinfo - it's a very clean and thorough display of my hardware info - but to reiterate an earlier comment, it is no help to most users unless it's installed by default. It's informative, small, and important enough that I see no good reason not to include this package in future Ubuntu releases.
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I know some 3rd party apps have this capability, but I would like the System Monitor to display info about RAM slots.
Currently, it only says how much memory you have (e.g. 1024 megabytes) but not how this is physically installed in the machine. Is this a single 1024 megabyte module or is it two 512 megabyte modules? Are there any free slots available to add additional memory modules? This would be particularly useful for laptops since the memory slots can be a lot of work to get to (e.g. under the keyboard).
Also, it would be nice to see what kind of memory the system needs. DDR, DDR2, PC1200, PC1600.. or whatever weird numbers they have for RAM nowadays.
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