Monday, February 22, 2010

Getting Hardware Information in Ubuntu

I am thinking of upgrading my computer, maybe getting extra RAM. For that, I need to know what motherboard I've got, so I can perform the upgrade. #1 through #3 suggested different tools to check this information out on a machine running Ubuntu. So I clicked into each one of the above to take a look. #2, #3A and #3B all requires installation of some software, while #1 is not very suitable for Xubuntu flavour.

I don't believe that I cannot find a solution already available on my Xubuntu box, so I tried apropos. Wa-la~ apropos suggested lshw. It's so cool, it listed not only what I need, but also a lot of other things that i might find interesting if one day I decided to look into it. :) Mission accomplished, though google's help was not entirely neccessary.

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