Andrew Stevens » Linux http://andrewjstevens.com Technology, media, architecture & strategy Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:48:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 An ASUS eee PC with Debian Linux http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/11/an-asus-eee-pc-with-debian-linux/ http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/11/an-asus-eee-pc-with-debian-linux/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:34:50 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewjstevens.com/?p=291 I like Linux, but I know Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu a little better than Debian – bit I am keen to get myself an eee. I have been thinking about a 901 or perhaps a 1000H and wiping XP off it.

Anyway a mate has a 701 up for sale as he just got himself a 901. I am taking his old 701 for a test drive.

Ok, first step? Get it onto my WPA Personal, TKIP secured network with a hidden SSID. Done!

Next? Get my 3 Huawei E220 modem working. This proved to be a little tougher until I found this: http://wiki.debian.org/Huawei/E220?highlight=(huawei)

Now? Chatting to friends with Pidgin.

I will write more…

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CPU info:

  • cat /proc/cpuinfo
  • cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’

Memory info:

  • cat /proc/meminfo
  • cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
  • cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree

Storage info:

  • cat /proc/partitions
  • hdparm -I /dev/sda
]]> http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/11/more-on-linux/feed/ 0 “How do I tell what version of Linux is running?” http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/10/how-do-i-tell-what-version-of-linux-is-running/ http://andrewjstevens.com/2008/10/how-do-i-tell-what-version-of-linux-is-running/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:07:53 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewjstevens.com/?p=193 Ok, it does seem a strange question to be asked, but this seriously has happened to me too.

I have just been handed a system without anything – no documentation, no history, no specifications, and no technical information or staff at all.

So what is the command to find out? Just type this below:

uname -a && cat /etc/*release

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