Dig Up System Information Using Graphical Utilities
Yesterday I posted a list of terminal commands for gathering information about your system from the command line. For today, here are a few graphical utilities for the same job.
Sysinfo
Install from the package sysinfo
Sysinfo has a nice and simple interface, but displays less information than some
of the other software here. Some sections use a drop down area to reveals extra
information. Sysinfo is great if it has the details you need.
Hardinfo
Install from the package hardinfo
I’ve written about
Hardinfo
before, but it does more than benchmarking. Hardinfo can generate very detailed
but easy to understand reports in HTML format.
lshw-gtk
Install from the package lshw-gtk
lshw-gtk is a graphical interface to the lshw utility. It sorts information into
multiple scrolling lists. The launcher is hidden away in the
System->Preferences menu, but you will get more data running from the command
line with sudo. lshw-gtk provides fairly detailed reports.
Device Manager
Included in Ubuntu
Ubuntu has its own device manager included by default in the
System->Preferences menu, which uses HAL to gather information. It’s not easy
to sort through all the devices, but it provides lots detail and is available on
every GNOME desktop.
Archived Comments
Tom
Chonnawonga:
You can get around that problem by just using Hardinfo to generate a HTML
report.
Adam
That sounds like a problem with the way glibc releases memory and sounds like it is trying to delete a pointer that no longer exists. This will probably work itself out if you update your glibc library or wait for a security update?
Chonnawonga
Thank you both! For now I’m using the HTML report, which is great.
Chonnawonga
I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but I find that with Hardinfo, the first item I load comes up fine, but when I load another, it crashes, and I get this error:
*** glibc detected *** hardinfo: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0839d590 ***
Other than that minor problem, this seems to be a great program.