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Linux system information app

Filed under: My software by Hari
Posted on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:50 IST (last updated: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 @ 23:01 IST)

Some time back, I created a little Linux system information app in Python/Glade. Most system information in Linux can be determined from the command line, but many people aren't very familiar with how to access this information. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. Note that on your particular distribution, permissions may vary, so to obtain some of the information, you might need to run this as root.

Just extract the contents of the archive and run the genna.py file from the command line. Requirements: python, libglade2 and python-glade2.

Download

genna-0.1.tar.gz (4.2 kB)

Screenshot

GEnna Screenshot

11 comment(s)

  1. that is pretty darn cool. Wow. I'm impressed. of course, I don't have a linux box (yet) and so I can't actually try it. (sigh)

    Comment by titanium_geek (visitor) on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 @ 16:39 IST #
  2. Thanks Titanium_geek. :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sat, Feb 25, 2006 @ 08:03 IST #
  3. you should put it on freshmeat...

    Comment by titanium_geek (visitor) on Sat, Feb 25, 2006 @ 09:58 IST #
  4. I'll certainly do that, once I figure out freshmeat and how to submit content there. Thanks! :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sat, Feb 25, 2006 @ 16:37 IST #
  5. I get:Traceback (most recent call last): File "genna.py", line 7, in ? import gobjectImportError: No module named gobjectI have all the deps loaded, any thoughts?

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 @ 08:27 IST #
  6. Ignore me. I had to load up pygtk - it all works perfectly now.Cool app Hari.

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 @ 08:33 IST #
  7. Thanks Ray. Yes, I forgot to add python-gtk as a dependency, but I figured python-glade would require it. If you have any suggestions for more info to be added, let me know. :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 @ 09:50 IST #
  8. I think it may be worth stating the obvious, that even though it runs under your normal user account, not all info is available unless you run it as root.

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 @ 17:58 IST #
  9. >> I think it may be worth stating the obvious, that>> even though it runs under your normal user>> account, not all info is available unless you run>> it as root.I mentioned that in the article. :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 @ 19:51 IST #
  10. In that case, it may be worth stating the even more obvious "Ray must improve his reading skills" :)

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 03:04 IST #
  11. I'm planning to write a small GUI GRUB config tool for the next one.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 @ 08:20 IST #

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