Extracting info from OS/hardware

[Thomas Weholt]

I need a piece of code to extract as much info about OS, current status and
hardware from a machine as possible ( at least, all available partitions and
free space on these, CPU-speed, free/total memory and stuff like that ) at
one given moment on Linux and Windows.

Any hints? Can I call something in win32all on Windows or read some file on
linux? I'm not sure where to begin.

Thomas