How would i write a utility containing the following information CPU, memory, version of the Linux kernel, hardware and boot information, kernel modules, disk usage, free disk space, processes, %CPU usage, %MEM usage, uptime, who's logged in, etc.?

Wow, that's a lot of work. You are better of using one of the many applications that does it already. Gkrellm is very popular:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...m/gkrellm.html

it accepts themes and is quite useful, with a good amount of eye candy

Torsmo:

http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/

My personal favorite. Instead of running on your desktop, it runs on the root screen, kinda like a background. The application is noticeable smaller then gkrellm, so you might check out the source code for this.

Root-tail:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html

Another simple application, similar to torsmo, but instead of display CPU, HD, RAM etc, if shows your log messages. Also worthy checking out.

Now, if you want to write things like this from scratch, you will need loads of good understanding of programming and especially how Linux works.

Good luck!

You know how to find out the output from command line right? If so, just put that in a bash script and format it the way you want it. It's not too hard...just tedious work that is involved.

-twantrd