lshw is a small open source tool to extract detailed and comprehensive information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
This application reports 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.
lshw must be run as super user or it will only report partial information.
Key Features
- Information can be output in plain text, XML or HTML.
- Shows information about specific hardware with the class option:
- Address.
- Bridge.
- Bus.
- Communication.
- Disk.
- Display.
- Generic.
- Input.
- Memory.
- Multimedia.
- Network.
- Power.
- Printer.
- Processor.
- Storage.
- System.
- Tape.
- Volume.
- Supports DMI (x86 and IA-64 only), OpenFirmware device tree (PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/ATAPI, PCMCIA (only tested on x86), SCSI and USB.
- Generate a compact hardware report.
Website: ezix.org
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Developer: Lyonel Vincent
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
lshw is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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