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How to generate system hardware profile for your laptop?

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November 8th, 2007 mysurface

Recently, MIS department request us for hardware and software profile. They provide us Belarc Advisor (personal pc audit software), use to generate hardware and software profile.
That cause me some trouble, because Belarc Advisor only supports Microsoft products* and all my software is either open source or free. Therefore, I talked to the guys in [...]

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get to know your hardware information

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December 26th, 2006 mysurface

You can obtain cpu and memory info by doing this:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/meminfo
But what if you want to have a peek of all hardware you have and its information?
lshw
With root privilege, lshw shows you more hardware details then without.
How about I don’t want too much details but just to have a nice list of all [...]