Hardware lister
lshw (HardWare LiSter) is a small tool for Linux to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
| Tags | Hardware Logging Systems Administration Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 13 Feb 2009 01:00
Changes: This version fixes several bugs that caused lshw to hang while scanning the system. It also improves portability (especially compilation on newer Linux distributions) and adds support for detection of EXT4 volumes.
- 09 May 2008 14:09
Changes: This version fixes crashes and portability problems on i386, IA-64, Sparc, and Arch Linux, and adds correct detection of 64-bit systems (x86-64).
- 14 Oct 2007 13:24
Changes: This release fixes a crash with long lines in USB data files.
- 09 Oct 2007 14:47
Changes: This version adds support for reporting detailed information on filesystem volumes (FAT, NTFS, ext2/3, Reiserfs, HFS/HFS+, and swap). A few bugs have been fixed. Online checking for updates has been implemented (-version CLI option or the 'about' menu in the GUI).
- 05 Aug 2007 16:49
Changes: This version fixes "make install" installation problems and improves the GUI's behaviour on older versions of GTK+ that can't read SVG images.
