WARNING: you should run this program as super-user. If you still want to stick to console run the console version of lshw or use dmidecode or lshw: The great thing about generating HTML report for hardware is that on Staging / Production / Development servers which you inherited from some other administrator who for some reason (laziness □ ) didn't left necessery documentation, you can easily map the machine hardware and even if it is a group of machines, you can automate report generation for all of them write a short script that parses the data on each of the HTML reports and finally creates a merged document with main important information about hardware of a cluster of computers etc. Then just open it with Browser, for example I like GNOME Epiphany browser, so I'll read HTML with it: (thatnks God this old but gold Thinkpad T420 business notebook does not run UEFI substitute for BIOS □ĬPU Information (with all the supported CPU capabilities (extensions)īy the way another Way to GUI View your Computer is to just generate HTML from lshw command line tool (as it supports export to HTML), here is how: Here is few more screenshots from hardware info reported from my ThinkPad T410 Laptop Running Debian 9 Stretch at the moment. Now run it either from GNOME / Cinnamon (The default graphical environment of Debian Linux) or PLASMA (The new name for the second most popular Linux Graphical Environment – KDE desktop environment) True that the tests, are pretty simple but still could be useful. HardInfo is really amazing program as it even includes various common Benchmark Tests and comparison with other Computers: On RedHat RPM based Linux distributions, the package to install is called lshw-guiĪgain, find them and run from GUI environment menus or run manually like in below example:Īs you see hardinfo is really interactive and it gives you pretty much all the information, you might need, the only information that was missing at my case and I guess, that would happen to others is information about the SSD Hard Disk, which 180GB Howto install LSHW-GTK on Fedora, CentOS and OpenSuSE Linux to view easy hardware information To i nstall both of them on Debian / Ubuntu GNU / Linux, run:Īpt-get install –yes lshw lshw-gtk hardinfoĢ. Howto Install LSHW-GTK / HardInfo on Debian / Ubuntu / Mint GNU / Linux to easy view hardware information Currently it knows about PCI, ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, Serial and parallel port devices.ġ. HardInfo – is a small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system. LSHW-GTK is simply a GTK frontend over the command line tool for hardware information gathering LSHW There are at least 2 ways to quickly check hardware on both PC WorkStation or Server, the easiest and quickest for PC / Notebook Linux users if you have installed GTK libraries or Gnome Desktop Environment is with as that's pretty much a waste of hardware resource and opens a dozen of other security risks for the server running services ). If you are a console maniac like myself, perhaps you never think that you might need anything graphical besides to view hardware information on Linux, but as we're growing older sometimes it becomes much less easier to just use a graphical tool that can show us all the information we need regarding a Notebook / Desktop PC with Linux or even Server machine with enabled Graphical Environment with a brand new installed GNU / Linux whatever version (I hope you don't own server with running Xorg / Gnome / Mate / Xfce etc. IS THERE A GRAPHIC ( GUI ) TOOL TO VIEW HARDWARE INFORMATION ON LINUX?
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