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dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case 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.

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By: srijana

wow ! great tool. Never knew that.

By: rzin

I personally very much like lshw (and its gui version). In addition to the bios (DMI table) info on hardware that you also get from dmidecode, it can gather information from e.g. /proc, /sys or /dev (depending on the platform of course) and will query pci/agp, usb, ide and more to add to the picture. It also can give ouput in html or xml form if you need it.

I do use dmidecode as well, though.