software to collect date about this system

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 2 23:02:19 UTC 2009


On 02/02/2009 02:46 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
> 20090202 1642 GMT-5
> 
> There is a piece of software call Belarc that I used for Windows. It 
> gives a range of information.
> 
> I think (I dont remember as its been a long time) it also gave 
> information about the cpu, the bios, ram (type and amount) etc. Is there 
> something like that for Ubuntu?
> 
> wade

sudo lshw > myhardware.txt

Then open the myhardware.txt file with whatever editor you wish (gedit,
etc) or just

cat myhardware.txt

Note: you can chane myhardware.txt to whatever file name you prefer; I
use the machine name and date, so that I can keep records easily.






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