Date 1/07/2021, document created with Mousepad, options: View > Line numbers ; View > Menubar ; View > Toolbar ; View Statusbar ; Document > Wordrap OS : Debian Buster with Raspberry Pi Desktop (unknow version at this time, will find it below) Run with persistance mode, SDHC-10 Hardware: Intel Atom N270 (eeePC 901) While learning more about Debian: terminal is runing htop (to check cpu utilization) terminal is runing s-tui (cpu frequency and temperature) ^s-tui wasn't available in this OS, to install open terminal and use command: sudo apt-get install s-tui picture : s-tui debian terminal instalation.jpg I wanted to take a screenshot and could not find an utility to do so, so after quick google, first mention was Flameshot, to install open terminal and use command: sudo apt-get install flameshot picture : Flameshot debian terminal install.jpg how to get more details about the debian release version: open terminal, use command: uname -a ^ Linux raspberrypi 4.19.0-13-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) i686 GNU/Linux more details, use command: cat /etc/os-release ^ PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" to check if latest version is installed, use command : sudo apt update , that showed some updated packages were available so, after use command: sudo apt upgrade after the above commands there was no difference in the output of "uname -a" or "cat /etc/os-release" commands, attempting to use neofetch to get more details, installed via terminal using command : sudo apt-get install neofetch, after installation no more usefull information was obtained information about the cpu, use command : lscpu ^ Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Byte Order: Little Endian Address sizes: 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 28 Model name: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz Stepping: 2 CPU MHz: 1551.908 CPU max MHz: 1600.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 3200.23 L1d cache: 24K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 512K Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm information about memory, use command: dmidecode -t memory ^ output is too long, but show 2048MB, maximum of 4096MB (not a greate idea since its a 32bit cpu) too check later : https://github.com/X0rg/CPU-X ^ lists the operating system that are supported, FreeBSD, Arch and OpenMandrive are listed the web results show many applications that are not installed by default, some are easier to install using synaptic package manager, so use command: sudo apt-get install synaptic example : cpu-x, after installing synaptic the result was the same, package not found so, manually instalation it is. so from page : https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/i386/cpu-x/download I get the file : cpu-x_4.1.0-1_i386.deb that is located at ~\Downloads (~ is the designator for the user home directory/folder, if you use command : "cd ~" you will travel to the folder \home\(username)\ to install use the command: sudo apt install ~\Downloads\cpu-x_4.1.0-1_i386.deb ^this will fail, because the application is intendend for bullseye, that is Debian 11, and this release is Debian 10 (buster) since cpu-x wasn't available, the next sugestion from the google results was Hardinfo, to install use the following command in terminal : sudo apt-get install hardinfo. The application name after instalation is System information and benchmark tool. Because this tool was able to list the hardware, it probably means that this debian release contains all applications required, however, many google search results include the application lshw, that isn't installed so, to install it, in terminal use the following command : sudo apt-get install lshw Chromium doesn't detect Fon portable, installing firefox, debian firefox release is called firefox-esr, o install launch terminal and use the following command : sudo apt-get install firefox-esr adjust screen brightness does not appear to be possible in Raspi OS, so using the command line, first identify the display and then set brightness level, use the following command: xrandr ^^ Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 eDP-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 276mm x 156mm xrandr --output eDP-1 --brightness 0.4 ^^ Works! wicd is a nice Gui app for managing wireless networks, it allows connection as well! sudo apt-get install wicd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- plenty of information seems to be mising in the file aptitude or apt-get update the repository sudo apt-get update list all updates available apt-get upgrade --dry-run or: apt list --upgradable ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- saved for later : https://askubuntu.com/questions/686665/overclocking-asus-eee1008ha-pc-atomn280-running-ubuntu14-04 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=126334 https://opensource.com/article/19/9/linux-commands-hardware-information https://www.tecmint.com/commands-to-collect-system-and-hardware-information-in-linux/