Saturday, January 19, 2008

HowTo: Install Linux Hardware Browser

Tired of looking your detailed hardware configuration specs? Forgot those command line commands to identify your devices and hardware specs?

Here's a GUI based hardware browser that displays your current hardware specifications and profile with no fuzzy and administrative menu. Hwbrowser shows all your hardware specifications including hard drive controllers, sound and video cards, network and USB devices, attached storage devices and so on.

Hardware Browser - HwBrowser Installation

Fedora supports installation of hwbrowser via yum. To install hwbrowser, simply issue

# yum -y install hwbrowser

that downloads around 107K of package size.

Though this hwbrowser linux tool does not provide any further menus like options to remove hardware devices, edit hardware drivers, disable interrupts, or any other administrative hardware functions - hwbrowser simply displays all those hardware specifications currently being seen from your CPU and devices.

Binary Launch

# hwbrowser

Enjoy.

Hwbrowser ScreenShot:


Related Reading:
Alternative Hardware Devices Viewer
Linux Hardware and Software Clock
CD/DVD Drive Technical Specifications
Speed Up your Hard Drive

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I tried this and got:

yum -y install hwbrowser
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Install Process
No package hwbrowser available.
Error: Nothing to do
:-(

VeRTiTO said...

It doesnt exists to FC 13 and FC14 anymore. Alternatively try


yum intall lshw


# lshw

#ls

# lshw -short -class memory

#lshw -short -class memory

# lshw -short -class disk

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