Kinfocenter is a utility in KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 that provides information about a computer system.

Before KDE 3.1 it was integrated with the control center. Most of the options were originally designed for Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, but many have been ported to other operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

s. It also provides useful information about KDE, such as available KIO

KIO

KIO is part of the KDE architecture. It provides access to files, web sites and other resources through a single consistent API. Applications, such as Konqueror which are written using this framework can operate on files stored on remote servers in exactly the same way as they operate on those...

slaves.

Information provided

The information provided by Kinfocenter is divided into the following subsections:

• Devices
• DMA-Channels
• Interrupts
• IO-Ports
• Memory
• Network Interfaces
• OpenGL
• Partitions
• PCI
• PCMCIA
• Processor
• Protocols
• Samba Status
• SCSI
• Storage Devices
• USB Devices
• X-Server

External links

• KInfoCenter User Manual