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Get Hardware Details In Linux With 'dmidecode'

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LinuxAndUbuntu.com; By Mohd Sohail
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?dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS ) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possibly unreliable.

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I find the command lshw to be a lot more informative, and dumping it to an html file "lshw -html >lshw.html" a lot easier to read.

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