Updating to 15.04

[Bruce Marshall]

On 04/04/2015 02:49 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> bmarsh at bmarsh.com wrote:
>> There used to be a nifty program called "hwinfo" but for some reason
>> they removed it.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a similar program?
> I don't know "hwinfo" but how about "lshw"? OTOH I don't know if that is
> also removed from 15.04 (I'm still using 14.04).
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> Nils
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That's one I didn't know about...(lshw)  and it is in 15.04.  Pretty 
good except that 'hwinfo'  was able to output specific devices if 
asked   (gfx, disk, memory), which cut down on the info.

I also found  "hardinfo"  in 15.04  but it seems that requires a GUI.