You can also peruse /proc

On Apr 5, 2005 9:22 AM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:19 04/05/2005 -0700, Todd Walton wrote:
> >There's this really nifty tool on Windows called SiSoft Sandra.  It
> >examines your computer and OS and profiles it.  It says, "You have
> >this much memory, and it's of this type.  Your CPU is this make,
> >model, speed, etc.  You have these drives..."  and so on.
> >
> >Is there anything that runs in Linux that will profile/describe a
> >computer's hardware?
> 
> Yes. It's called the linux kernel. All that stuff that goes scrolling by
> when the machine boots contains detailed information about your machine.
> You can read it using dmesg.
> 
> Gus
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