System Monitor difference....Why?
 

I have 2 computers running Linux, Debian and Linux Mint. Both are very desirable OS platforms. After a few years of playing around I have decided that these are the 2 that I like the best. I am now 66 % Linux, the other 33% being Win-XP.

So the question I have is that I wanted to see what my CPU's were in each one, Deb and Mint. The mint is on a old A7V133 and keeps freezing on me often. I plan on upgrading the MB and processor, so that Mint is more stable.

I clicked on System Monitor and get 2 different versions, both systems say that they are updated, but on the Deb computer it lacks a TAB called System and plus the other 3 of coarse, Processes / Resources / File Systems, are there as well has in Mint. So Deb is missing the System Tab. Mint has all 4 of the Tabs.

I took a screen shot of each, but I guess you can not post pictures here.
So why is there a difference between the two OS's?

I would think that Debian was a little more up to date then a Ubuntu based OS like Mint. Both are running the GDM.

thanks for comments...
jymmi

Hey jymmi,

Why not post the version and name of the system monitors?

For instance, here I am running gkrellm-2.3.1 and also
SuperKaramba-0.42 with slackware12.1_info_monitor.

Here is a screenshot.

Is this the Gnome Desktop on both computers?
They might not run the same version of gnome and this could be the reason for the two monitors looking different. The "Help" --> "Info" or "About" Menu tells what version it is.

top shows running processes
df -h and mount tell you about free space and where it is
free tells you about your memory-usage
cat /proc/cpuinfo tells you all about your processor
lspci tells about your hardware

To the first question.. Finding out what hardware is in a system. you can open a shell and use the lshw command.

To get info about ALL the hardware in your system use lshw by itself with no parameters.
user@it-etch:~/$ lshw

if you want JUST the CPU information it would be
user@it-etch:~/$ lshw -c processor




To see what versions of system monitor are installed on your systems you can use apt-cache policy
This is the version on my Debian Lenny box, and I do have the system tab available.




And if you are really stuck on GUI's you can install gnome-device-manager, which will appear in your system menu as "Device Manager"



Ubuntu is based on snapshots of Debian sid (unstable) I believe, so it will actually have newer packages in it than Debian stable.

Debian version = 2.15.5

Mint version = 2.22.3

Thanks for all the command lines, always looking for things like this.