** Keith Edmunds <[email protected]> [2014-06-11 19:17]:
> Maybe you should describe want you want to achieve. I've no idea what
> Belarc Advisor does.
** end quote [Keith Edmunds]

I was thinking much the same thing. I have used Belarc Advisor once to try and
work out a chipset so I could track down a driver iirc. It gives quite a bit of
information, but I have a feeling I ended up booting Linux in order to get the
info I needed in the end.

There are plenty of tools to get similar info, but I'm not sure there is a
single one that does the lot. Depending what you are looking for you may like
to look at one or more of the following as a starting point:

dpkg -l (to list packages installed on a .deb based system, not sure off hand
  of the .rpm equivalent)
lsmod (for the loaded modules)
lshw (for hardware details)
lsusb (usb hardware)
lspci (pci hardware)
lscpu (cpu info)
dmidecode (memory info)

There are others, but these are pretty standard on Debian/Ubuntu based distros.

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