My favorite system information tool is the KDE Plasma Information Center or kinfocenter. It tells me all the fun little bits about the computer. My second favorite tool is called neofetch. Neofetch is a command-line system information tool that displays an aesthetically pleasing output of information about your operating system, software and hardware. It shows the basic information about a system in Bash.
For information on the project, visit their GitHub Page.
Installation
Tumbleweed
This is available in the main openSUSE repository for Tumbleweed so installation is easy:
sudo zypper in neofetch
Leap 15.1 Install
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/ Utilities
sudo zypper in neofetch
Leap 15.0 Install
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/ Utilities
sudo zypper in neofetch
It takes very little time to install with three other dependencies required.
The application is pretty straight forward, just run it:
neofetch
It’ll give you your system information.
The information, by default, is displays alongside the operating system’s logo in ASCII art. It can be configured differently, if you wish. I don’t know exactly how neofetch is fetching the this information but it is pretty cool display of information in the terminal. I particularly appreciate the ASCII Tumbleweed symbol.
It was a welcome surprise to see how many packages, rpm and snap, are installed in the system as well as the uptime. These are fun numbers and it would be fun to dig into the source code on this application.
There are some additional options you can play with, take a look at the man page:
man neofetch
Final Thoughts
That’s it, just a quick, fun system info tool to use in the terminal. It is practical and easy to use. If you are managing multiple machines and want to get a quick account of information remotely in the terminal, this would be a good choice. How often will you use it? Not sure, but it is still nice to have.
The neofetch package is not available in the main repo of openSUSE Leap 15. Maybe Tumbleweed, I don’t know – it is available from OBS though.
You are absolutely right. I didn’t check the Leap 15.0 as I am mostly on Tumbleweed. I will fix that.