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On 03/11/11 09:55, David Halliday wrote:
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.piriform.com/speccy">http://www.piriform.com/speccy</a></div>
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<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>
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On 3 November 2011 09:47, Michael E. Rentell <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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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<font size="-1"><font face="sans-serif">Thanks guys. I've forwarded
all this advice to my mate in Maryland. I know it will help him
a lot.Ta.</font></font><br>
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