On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:54:38AM +0000, Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote: > 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}'` dmidecode won't work without read access to /dev/mem. > ME=`cat /proc/meminfo | head -n1 | awk '/[0-9]/ {print $2}'` > S=`parted -l | grep Disk | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'` parted requires whole disk device read access for this. -1 if it requires root priviledges. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
