## Guname Manual

2000
John Fleck

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This is version 1.0 of Guname manual.

## Introduction

Guname displays a variety of basic information about your system.

To run Guname, select System info... from the System submenu of the Main Menu, or type `guname` on the command line.

Guname is included in the `GNOME-utils` package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version &version; of Guname.

## Using Guname

Guname displays a variety of basic information about your system. This section describes basic usage of Guname.

### Basic usage

Starting Guname opens the Main window, shown in .

#### Guname Main Window

Guname Main Window

In the main window, Guname shows the operating system distribution your computer uses, the operating system, the distribution version, the operating system version, the operating system release, the processor type, the host name, the name of the user who invoked Guname, the name of the X display and the status of the system: up time (the length of time since your computer was last booted), the current number of users and three numbers representing "load" - the average number of processes running on your computer over the last minute (the first load number), the last five minutes and the last fifteen minutes.

The main window includes a text box that scrolls through a list of the many contributors to the GNOME project.

The main window also includes three buttons that allow you to take further action: Detailed Information..., Save Information to File..., and Email Information.

### Detailed Information

The Detailed Information window provides data on disk usage, memory and your CPU.

#### Disk Information

##### Disk Information

Disk Information

In the Disk Information window, Guname provides an accounting of the amount of space on each of your filesystems and how it is allocated.

You'll see a box for each of the mounted disk drives and/or disk partitions on your computer. The position of the display bar and the numbers above and to the left of it indicate the amount of space used and available on the disk, and who the space is allocated to.

The label at the top of each box identifies the drive or partition it's measuring. `/dev/hda1`, for example, measures the first partition on the first hard drive (hda). `/dev/fd0` indicates it's the first floppy disk. Other identifiers can include `/dev/sda`, for the first SCSI hard drive, and `/dev/sga` for the first generic SCSI device.

#### Memory Information

##### Memory Information

Memory Information

The Memory Information window provides details on how much memory your computer has, and how it is allocated, including the amount currently in use.

#### CPU Information

##### CPU Information

CPU Information

The CPU Information window tells what kind of processor your computer has, who made it, how fast it goes and other details about its operation.

#### Saving or Mailing Information

Guname's main window gives you two ways to save information for later use.

Clicking on the Save Information to File... button opens a standard save window, prompting you for the name and directory location in which to save the file. Guname then saves a text file with all the basic information contained in the application's main window.

Guname also offers the option of emailing the system information. Clicking on the Email Information... button opens a dialog box prompting you for the email address to which you'd like the information sent.

## Authors

Guname was written by Havoc Pennington (hp@redhat.com). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line at http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (`bug-buddy`), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by John Fleck (jfleck@inkstain.net). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to docs@gnome.org. You can also add your comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.

## License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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