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Idea #14992: Easy-to-use system-information-viewer

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #4848: Better Hardware Profile Manager.
Written by jaenz the 30 Oct 08 at 11:44. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
A friend of mine asked me, how he can identify his graphic-card. I told him to open a terminal, to type "lspci |grep vga" - but that has nothing to do with useability.

The silver bullet would be an application just like "System-Profiler" on Mac OS X. It guarantees easy access to the informations you need.

How it looks: http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/HT1582/HT1582_1.jpg

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Written by jaenz the 30 Oct 08 at 11:44.
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longlivethebestos wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 17:48
Under the System menu and under 'about ubuntu' They need to Have something called 'about this computer', which would have a brief overview like: Processor, ram, Hdd and graphics card model. and then an advanced option for 'Advanced' things

wleoncio wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 17:59
+1! The system information viewer also gives me the creeps! I'll probably get trashed for saying this, but I think the one on Windows XP has a good structure, with little icons and a more condensed tree; we should do something like that (but better, of course).

juno eclipse wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 19:42
Just install "hardinfo" (in universe repo)
Then go to System >> Admin >> System Profiler and Benchmark

;)

webmaren wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 20:41
This seems like a good idea, I myself have often wished for such a feature. "lspci | grep foo" works fine if you know exactly what you're looking for, not so much if you don't.

I can't imagine that it would be too onerous to write a graphical frontend for lspci.

lukesandberg wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 00:16
um im pretty sure that this exists. its called sysinfo and it was released with hardy. Aplications->System Tools->Sysinfo

Holmen wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 00:43
SysInfo is a great way to check all of your hardware out.

wleoncio wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 08:18
@juno eclipse

Thanks for showing me hardinfo! That's exactly what I was talking about! The default sys info viewer should look pretty much like that! :)


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