Thanks for that tip, i'm still getting my feet wet with linux, but so far i really like it for working with scheme and c files.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Noel Welsh</b> <<a href="mailto:noelwelsh@gmail.com">noelwelsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Charlie Smith<br> <<a href="mailto:charliesmith001@gmail.com">charliesmith001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > the computers my school has are pretty bad, has only 218mb RAM and is quite<br>
> old (8 years i think ), i'm not sure of the version of Redhat its using but<br> > i'll try and download other linux binaries or build from source<br> <br> <br>You can get a bit more information about your machine using the uname<br>
command. For example, on my machine:<br> <br> ~> uname -a<br> Linux hpc-005 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 30 12:55:19 EDT 2009<br> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux<br> <br> This tells me I'm running kernel version 2.6.18 (along with a bunch of<br>
other stuff that is mostly irrelevant).<br> <br> If you look at the files /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo you'll get<br> info on the CPU and installed memory.<br> <br> HTH,<br> <br>N.<br> </blockquote></div><br>