how do I find system specs?

[nukenorman]

I am running the latest version of Kubuntu. But how do I found out my system specs such as HD space ram processor ETC. I cant find it anywere and I feel like a newb for asking this because I could easily do this in windows.

Thanks

[Elv13]

kinfocenter should be installed, but the real way is using command line with commad like, cat /proc/cpuinfo, cat /proc/meminfo, sudo lspci, sudo fdisk and sudo ifconfig

[nukenorman]

were can I find the kinfo center. with the new kde 4 everything is differnt. :-(

[Elv13]

Same thing:

alt+f2

kinfocenter

[Lechio]

I believe kinfocenter doesn't come installed by default.

Right-click on desktop>Run command>konsole

Then:

sudo apt-get install kinfocenter

Then:

Right-click on desktop>Run command>kinfocenter

Also consider updating to KDE 4.2 if that computer isn't used for "critical" work. It's still beta but it has a lot of improvements.

See here for details on how to update: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2-beta-2

[nukenorman]

This laptop is not connected to the internet so I can download the thing like you said. I also must add that for KDE to not include any were to be able to view your system spec is pretty dumb. Guess I will switch to gnome and never look back to KDE then.

[Elv13]

it does, KInfoCenter is part of kde. Kubuntu just didn;t install it by default, they are dumb, not KDE. But on Linux, you should normally use the command line to acces these informations.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Try: sudo lshw

[Lechio]

It's a Kubuntu thing, they decided not to have that tool installed by default. GNOME is pretty nice to use, more simple. Go back to it if it is what you look for in a DE.

You could also download that package manually, and install it on your system. It's so small that it even fits on a floppy.

Or just use the command line, like it was suggested. That will work too.

[Elv13]

I really hate when people say KDE4 suck because they tried it in Kubuntu, as a KDE dev and user, I have to say that KDE is more advanced and powerfull than Gnome, and 4.2 is as intuitive as gnome, but still more powerfull. If kubuntu did include more than 17% of KDE and did not make so buggy packages (it is what happend when you crop code to reduce the size of package), KDE would have a better reputation. 4.1 (comming with Kubuntu 8.10) was usable, but it does not compare with 4.2, people who say that they will never try KDE again and continue bashing it are miss the best DE ever made (4.2 is not that DE, it is less stable than 3.5 and some feature are 25-50% implemented in the UI (but 100% in the libs)).