$sudo lshw
You can get specific details by using the -C flag:
$sudo lshw -C disk
will list all you hard disks.
It create an html page with your hardware details if you do a:
$sudo lshw -html > your-file-name.html
I generated one for my laptop and put it up for future reference. Now I have an answer to the question, “what network adapter do you have, or what wireless driver are you using?”
I know, this is something probably all of you know already. I just found out about this little tool today. I expect this info might be useful for those of you just learning the ropes, like me.
Original post by Planet Ubuntu
Only one day after I found out that Pearl Jam would be giving a concert in the park 200m from here,
I read that 4 days earlier, the Red Hot Chili Peppers
will be giving a concert in the same venue. Tickets will be available from Saturday, I’ll try to get
myself one. And I just received an email from a friend that
The Levellers will be giving a concert in Nijmegen as well,
in March. Yay!
The powermanager we wrote for the Edgy Eft release cycle of Kubuntu has made quite some progress in
the Feisty Fawn release cycle. Simon kindly added some code to query the XScreensaver extension
for the amount of seconds the system is idle, and I quickly added code to make use of that.
Powermanager now supports suspending the machine after it has not been touched for a while.
Luka has added support for changing CPU frequencies based on if the machine is connected to AC or not,
which is another nice feature that should help to gain some more minutes of battery life. (This stuff
is not enabled in the screenshot, since I’m running Edgy and Edgy’s HAL does not support cpufreq.)
During the last Ubuntu developer summit, Ken and Nuno have been working on some nicer icons which also
give more fine-grained information about the battery state.
Finally, and most boring, we fixed numerous bugs so powermanager is as stable as never before. We did not,
however try to work around all glitches of various machines HAL reports. This kind of stuff needs to
be fixed in HAL. Instead, we encouraged people to report those bugs upstream.
Whether or not the screen should be locked after resuming is now configurable, too.
With all those changes in, we managed to keep everything compatible with the existing configuration
files to make the upgrade process to Feisty as smooth as possible. Also, it should be relatively easy
to get powermanager running on any other distro, there is nothing distro-specific in it, having HAL
installed should be sufficient.
There is some stuff in powermanager that makes it more flexible. Partly, it’s debugging functionality,
but it can also be very useful for various other purposes. At the top of the file powermanage.py, you
can find the variables SUSPEND_USE_HAL, S4_COMMAND and S3_COMMAND. Set SUSPEND_USE_HAL to False, then
whenever powermanager initiates a suspend/S3 (or hibernate/S4) cycle, those commands will be run.
Useful for suspend2 users, who use the hibernate script by Bernard Blackham and who did not integrate
it into HAL. (The latter can be done by hacking the scripts in /usr/share/hal/scripts/.)
Next, if you are not happy with some default values, powermanager uses, here’s what to do. (We did
not make everything configurable, but used those const values at the top of powermanage.py whereever
we had to find some ’sane default’ for a setting. Most notably, you can set the default value for
the ‘Suspend when battery life is less than N minutes’, use BATTERY_CRITICAL_MINUTES in that case
(and set it to the amount of minutes you wish).
Original post by Planet Ubuntu
Now that you are done reading with that, read the story at desktop linux.
I read them yesterday, and allowed myself a day to think about it. Here are some thoughts, in no specific order, and with no specific intention:
- I don’t think Linspire’s primary motivation is to make Desktop Linux popular. I think it is to make a profit. So the “popularize Linux” common goal stops with Freespire, Linspire’s step-brother
- Ubuntu is now “upstream” for a whole bunch of distros - each with a different kind of users. “Upstreaming” bugs from Ubuntu to Debian and to the individual packages’ bugtrackers is a really painful process and has been so. The upstreaming problem might get worse with Ubuntu having to deal with bugs from downstream too, about which little can be done except to upstream them to Debain, since that’s how Ubuntu tries to minimize the delta with Debian
- Linspire jsut seems to come out the winner in this deal. Ubuntu benefits only by having access to a not-yet-built CNR.com
- Mark says in the press release that the CNR system is open - well it is not entirely open source - only the client software is open source. I suppose he meant open as in open for access and use.
Yes, I am a pessimist, but in thinking about the worst case we find comfort in things that work out well. I hope this was the right decision to make. I can’t forget, however, that there is no way one can stop anyone from using the repositories that Ubuntu’s developers and users garden. It’s probably too early to say it, but I’ll say it anyway — Ubuntu is the New Debian.
Original post by jdub
The potential for tracker integration in GNOME goes way beyond the likes of indexers and desktop search thanks to its extensible metadata database (which makes tracker truly unique, useful and really innovative).
An extensible metadata rich service can provide a host of benefits and some of these are nicely summed up by John Stowers post “A-Metadata-Enabled-GNOME“ who is also working on *making things happen* rather than shouting from the rooftops.
Its also another reason why tracker is actually bloody useful (considerably more than its competitors which are simply dedicated indexers) and can help eliminate speed/memory problems like the multitude of .desktop files that have to be loaded in to the GNOME menus. A rant that is all too common these days but can be easily solved with tracker
Tracker Update
I have got Evolution email indexing (with summary files and correct URIs so indexed emails can be opened in Evolution) working nicely and will soon upload and release a version with full email support. We need to update our UI too to handle emails better so expect a revamped tracker-search-tool too in the next few days
Also Saleem Abdulrasool has submitted a nice patch to provide a capplet app to configure tracker and its really nice!
The next release of tracker is going to be absolutley fab!
Original post by Dave Richards
Today I’ve read about the great work of Iago Toral (a workmate at Igalia Innovation) with Gnome Buildbot. He’s been doing some efforts to integrate unit tests of Gtk+ in the build loop.
Using check, he’s generated wonderful HTML reports, and a nice integration with the standard buildbot compilation view:
You can read more information about Iago’s work in his blog entry “Gnome buildbot and integration of unit tests”. Hopefully we’ll get a public deployment of Gnome Buildbot soon.
Original post by Dave Richards
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