Hi. Not sure if this should go in the beginners section, so forgivness please if it's not correctly placed.

I just installed Linux Fedora Core 6 on my home computer (and am very very new to this) so I can learn more about it. However, I am looking for the FC6 equivalent to the System Device Manager tab on the control panel in Windows. I want to know where to access such information as Hardrive name, capacity, Processor info, RAM, DVD Name, mouse port...things of the like. Although as sinple as it may seem, I cannot find the information!

I have browsed the Applications, Places and System tabs without luck. So could someone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks very much.

you really post it on the wrong group, this is for unix/linux administration and most of us are only using text base administration.

to tell you the truth i don't know where to start on the command line to give you one by one. try searching it in google one by one or in here. search...

goodluck

While there may be GUIS for the things you are requesting, please don't take this the wrong way, you are going about this wrong.

You may want "Windows, but free". This is not Windows. Your time is also not free.

If you want to do this, a better way would be to not look for an analog of the tool you used, but to figure out what tasks you wish to accomplish, and then find the tools to do that.

Hard drive names are not really important in *NIX. On Linux, the names are usually something like:

sda or hda then sdb, or hdb, depending on the type of system. sda is for serial/scsi devices and hda is for old parallel ATA

However, in most cases you will be abstracting those to mount points or to logical volume groups.

Also, depending on the Linux distribution, the tools are slightly different.

vmstat will give you some information on memory, but the best tools I have found exist on SUSE systems where you can use hwinfo.

the "free" command will also give you info on memory, utilization of it, as well as swap.

For a process list, ps aux or ps -ef will give you a list, however not like on windows.

pstree will show you how they are connected to each other as parent/children.



Basically, the things you are looking for don't really exist in the same analogs on Linux or UNIX.

As such, any mishmash to make it appear to be as such will not translate well from distribution of OS to the next.