[techtalk] how to get hardware specs

[Steve Howes]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:41:34PM -0700, alissa bader wrote:
> ok, acutally this is *really* for solaris, instead of
> linux, but surely there's a similar command for both.
> :>
>
> I am trying to figure out what type of hardware, how
> much disk space, how much ram etc is on a box.  I know
> if I was doing this on a mac I'd click on "about this
> macintosh."  I know if I was doing this on an NT
> machine, I'd check out the properties under "My
> Computer."
>
> Someone told me dmesg would do it, but all I get is a
> garbled bunch of infomation.
>
> any other ideas?  this has to be one of the simplest
> things out there.  :>
> 

If you were using GNOME or kde then System information can be found from
the panel menus, in GNOME System->System Info and in kde
Settings->Information.

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