Will Woods wrote:
On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
Leon Stringer wrote:
Hi,
Apologies if I'm being a bit dim here. I've got various Fedora
systems and have just wasted time trying to install packages on the
wrong version (I was tired!).
But then I thought, how does a user determine what version of Fedora
they're using? If I do System->About Fedora I get explanatory text
but nothing about the version.
I know advanced users can do uname or query package versions but
there should be an easy/obvious way. People writing the About text
for Fedora 9, please take note. (Or just change the menu item text
to "About Fedora 9").
TTFN,
Leon...
This is a very good point. I suggest you take the idea and file an
RFE bug against the component 'fedora-release-notes', this is that
package that supplies the 'About Fedora' system menu item
(/usr/share/applications/about-fedora.desktop).
A user should not need to cat /etd/redhat-release to find out what
version of their desktop OS they have, adding just the release number
after About Fedora would be a nice touch.
Around F7, we[1] wrote an "About this computer" app called
'system-summary'. It's available in the repos for F8 and rawhide. It
gives:
1) Distro version,
2) kernel version,
3) CPU type and count,
4) RAM size, and
5) Smolt ID.
Here's a screenshot:
http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/system-summary-0.3.png
Maybe we should try to get it included in the System menu by default?
-w
[1] Okay, mostly jbowes, but I helped! Kinda!
And here is the about.sh
Todo needs cpu counting and grep the smolt ID and ASCII art and colorts :)
#!/bin/bash
F=`cat /etc/fedora-release`
M=`dmidecode | grep "Manufacturer:" | head -n1 | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
T=`dmidecode | grep "Product Name" | head -n1 | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
C=`dmidecode | grep "Max Speed" | head -n1 | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
ME=`cat /proc/meminfo | head -n1 | awk '/[0-9]/ {print $2}'`
S=`parted -l | grep Disk | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'`
K=`uname -r`
clear
echo "
You are running $F
With kernel $K
On a$M$T
With total of$C processing power
and $[$ME/1024] MB of installed memory
Capable of storing$S of Data.
"
exit 0
~
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