<div>If he has windows on the box there is an application called speccy that is free (as in beer not freedom). This can tell you a lot about your computer hardware: <a href="http://www.piriform.com/speccy">http://www.piriform.com/speccy</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Under Linux there is:</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">cat /proc/cpuinfo</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Lots of entries under </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/proc/</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/dev/</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> contain information (often more than you need) about the system.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For memory you can use the "free" command. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">#for memory in gigs:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">free -g</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">#for memory in megs:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">free -m</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">#to look at disk usage: ( -h uses 'human' readable figures in the output switching between megs and gigs etc... as it deems appropriate).</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">df -h</font><br><br>On 3 November 2011 09:47, Michael E. Rentell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.rentell@ntlworld.com">michael.rentell@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">A friend in USA whom I've convinced to switch to Linux wants to know the size of his RAM and his processor clock-speed. From this he will determine which version to install.<br>
He asks if there is are CLIs to report on RAM size and clockspeed. Such questions are beyond me, can anyone help?<br>
MikeR<br>
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