News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Fastfetch, the neofetch like system information tool, updated recently with many new features.
For those who don’t know about the app, it is a free open-source command line tool that can fetch and display system information for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc operating systems.
Want to check out your system and hardware information? Well, here are two tools that display detailed information about Ubuntu Linux and your computer hardware. They are: HardInfo and I-Nex
I-Nex has a CPU-Z similar interface that displays CPU, GPU, MotherBoard, Audio, Drives, System, Kernel, Memory, Network, USB info in tabs.
I-Nex collects real-time CPU temperature and Memory usage, it also allows to take a screenshot or generate (print) report.
To install I-Nex, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to get it from PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:i-nex-development-team/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install i-nex
Works on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint.
HardInfo is a system information and benchmark tool available in Ubuntu’s universe repository. It displays a summary of your system information and detailed devices, network, benchmarks. It allows to generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats.
To install this app, just open up Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install hardinfo package.
