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Monday, 20 July 2009 07:42

 

 

In Gnome the default installation does not provide any versatile gui tool to display the hardware information.But there is an excellent command line tool in debian/ubuntu linux that provides hardware information. The tool is called lshw.

The man page says:

"lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work)."



It is installed by default in ubuntu and debian.It even shows the exact motherboard version and processor speed.To show the detailed page-wise report type:

 

 sudo lshw|less

 

 

 

If lshw is not installed you can install it by typing in terminal

 

 sudo apt-get install lshw

 


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