Know About Your System Hardware in Terminal: LINUX

DMIDECODE

So Friends event occurs when you have to know about your system Hardware, on occasions like when upgrading your system or while replacing components. Like in windows have many options to know about your hardware but in Linux operating system you don’t have many options. So here I will discuss about some useful tool to know about your hardware installed in the systems, and the tool is DMIDECODE

DMI stands for Desktop Management interface, using this powerful tool you can easily decode your whole system installed components vital information like RAM, Processor, BIOS details and various other cards installed.

so first of all we have to launch terminal and then enter the following command

sudo apt- get install dmidecod

If your system had DMID code not stalled then this will install the DMIDECODE tool after this you have to enter the following command to know about your System board

sudo dmidecode -t baseboard

This command will basically show you Base Board information and to know more about your system hardware you can simply write the following command

sudo dmidecode

This command will show you all the information about BIOS, motherboard the RAM  installation about the the net card Wi-Fi card and about the processor installed etc this way you may know about your motherboard and all the hardware information on a Linux using terminal you need not open the laptop case to check the make andmodel of individual cards.


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