Every computer system has certain specifications and sometimes you feel the need to know the details of a particular system component. In such scenarios, you should know all the ways through which you can extract the relevant information about a particular component.
This tutorial will show you a wide range of commands and tools to display hardware details of your computer on Linux Mint 20. The same commands will work on Ubuntu Linux and Debian too.
Displaying System and Hardware Details in Linux Mint 20
There are different ways of displaying different system and hardware details in Linux Mint 20 which are discussed below:
Check computer system name
To check the Kernel name of your system, you have to execute the following command:
uname
Check the Release Number of your System’s Kernel
If you want to check the release number of your system’s kernel, then you will have to execute the command mentioned below:
uname -r
Check the Version Number of your System’s Kernel
To know the version number of your system’s kernel, the following command should be executed:
uname -v
Check the Name of your Network Node
You can even know the hostname of your network node by executing the command shown below in your Linux Mint 20 terminal:
uname --nodename
Check the Processor Type of your System
You can check out the processor type of your Linux Mint 20 system by running the following command in your terminal:
uname -p
Check the Operating System of your Machine
The operating system of a Linux Mint 20 system can be checked by executing the command shown below:
uname -o
Check the system architecture
For checking the make/model of your Linux Mint 20 system’s hardware, you have to execute the following command:
uname –m
Check the Hardware Platform of your System
You can even check the hardware platform of your Linux Mint 20 system simply by running the command shown below:
uname -i
Check all the CPU Related Information of your System
Basically, the CPU related information of a Linux based system is stored in the /proc/cpuinfo file. Therefore, if you want to know about all the CPU related information of your Linux Mint 20 system, then you can do it by running the following command:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Check the Architecture of your System
The architecture of a Linux Mint 20 system can be found out by executing the command shown below:
dpkg --print-architecture
Check the Hard Drive Related Information of your System:
You can check hard drive related information such as disk partitioning, mount points, etc. by running the following command:
lsblk
Check the Virtualization Status of your System
If you want to check if virtualization is enabled on your system or not, you can execute the command shown below:
lscpu
The highlighted portion of the image shown above indicates that virtualization is enabled on our Linux Mint 20 system and its type is “full”.
Check the Motherboard Related Information of your System
The motherboard related information of your Linux Mint 20 system can be extracted by running the following command:
sudo dmidecode -t 2
Check the Hardware Related Information of your System
For getting all the hardware related information of your Linux Mint 20 system, the “lshw” utility needs to be installed on it by executing the command shown below:
sudo apt-get install lshw
Once this utility is installed, you can use it to get the hardware summary of your system in the following manner:
sudo lshw -short
The -short flag has been used over here to extract the summary. Otherwise, the output of the simple “sudo lshw” command is too large.
Finally, you can even store all your hardware-related statistics in an HTML file by executing the command shown below:
sudo lshw -html > HardwareSummary.html
This HTML file will be stored in your Home directory by default. To access this HTML file, you simply have to double click on it and it will open up with your default web browser as shown in the following image:
Conclusion
This article shared with you the different ways in which you can extract useful information about the different components of a Linux Mint 20 system. Now, you can access relevant information about any of these components at any time you want.
