Simple "About this computer" utility?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 08 June 2007, Peter N Spotts wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:48 -0400, David Stubblebine wrote:
> > Is there a simple "about this computer" utility for ubuntu that shows
> > processor speed, RAM installed, serial number, etc?  Kinda like "About
> > this Mac" on Macs or Belarc Advisor on Windows?
> >
> > I've tried "Hardware Information" but it just doesn't show very much
> > or the detail is blank.


Try:    hwinfo  --<hw_item>  (also good at other types of hdwr)

hw_item is one of:
   all, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera, cdrom, chipcard, cpu,
    disk, dsl, dvb, floppy, framebuffer, gfxcard, hub, ide, isapnp, isdn,
    joystick, keyboard, memory, modem, monitor, mouse, netcard, network,
    partition, pci, pcmcia, pcmcia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, scanner, scsi, smp,
    sound, storage-ctrl, sys, tape, tv, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe, wlan, zip






hwinfo --cpu
01: None 00.0: 10103 CPU
  [Created at cpu.305]
  Unique ID: rdCR.j8NaKXDZtZ6
  Hardware Class: cpu
  Arch: Intel
  Vendor: "GenuineIntel"
  Model: 15.2.9 "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz"
  Features: 
fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,ht,tm,pbe,cid,xtpr
  Clock: 2800 MHz
  BogoMips: 5604.57
  Cache: 512 kb
  Units/Processor: 2
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

02: None 01.0: 10103 CPU
  [Created at cpu.305]
  Unique ID: wkFv.j8NaKXDZtZ6
  Hardware Class: cpu
  Arch: Intel
  Vendor: "GenuineIntel"
  Model: 15.2.9 "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz"
  Features: 
fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,ht,tm,pbe,cid,xtpr
  Clock: 2800 MHz
  BogoMips: 5600.63
  Cache: 512 kb
  Units/Processor: 2
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown