nukenorman Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukenorman Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 were can I find the kinfo center. with the new kde 4 everything is differnt. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Same thing: alt+f2 kinfocenter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukenorman Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 18, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2009 Try: sudo lshw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 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)). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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