You can also use the dmidecode utility to extract hardware information by reading data from the DMI tables. To print information about system, run this command. To print information about BIOS, run this command. To print information about processor, run this command.
The lsusb command is used to report information about USB controllers and all the devices that are connected to them. You can use the -v option to generate a detailed information about each USB device.
Block devices are storage devices such as hard disks, flash drives etc. lsblk command is used to report information about block devices
use the lshw tool to gather vast information about your hardware components such as cpu, disks, memory, usb controllers etc. lshw is a relatively small tool and there are few options that you can use with it while extracting information. The information provided by lshw gathered form different /proc files. Note Point: Do remember that … Read more
To know only system name, you can use uname command without any switch will print system information or uname -s command will print the kernel name of your system. root@localhost ~ $ uname Linux To view your network hostname, use ‘-n’ switch with uname command as shown. root@localhost ~ $ uname -n localhost.localdomain To get … Read more