Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Free Linux software CompTemp Monitor

Sometimes we need to check our computer hardware status. For example the temperature inside our machine. In windows environment we can easily search for software that capable to give a detail info about our system status like temperature, fan speed and many more. But in Linux, there are only a few kind of software like that. One of monitoring software in Linux is Comptemp monitor 0.9.6.1

Computer Temperature Monitor is a little applet for the GNOME desktop
that shows the temperature of your computer CPU and disks on screen.

It also allows you to log temperatures to a file.
You can set alarms to notify you when a tempertature is reached.
Several monitors can be added to the panel to monitor different sensors.
It is designed to look like CPU Frequency Gnome applet, so they match each other on panel.

Supported sensors:
* ACPI thermal support
* IBM laptops ACPI sensors
* adt746, windtunnel and windfarm (Apple iBooks, iMacs and G5 machines)
* Omnibook (HP and Toshiba models)
* i8k (Dell Latitude and Inspiron)
* i2c sensors kernel module (Linux kernel 2.6)
* HDDTEMP for hard disk temperatures


Requirements

This application requires GTK+ version 2.6.x. Other dependencies include:
python, python-gnome, python-gnome-extras, gconf2, hddtemp

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