Linux Finding out what hardware in linux

A friend of mine has a three year old linux that might be used as HTPC.
Problem is he does not know anything about the computer except it having a ASUS mobo.

He lives too far away from me to get over there and check it out, and i do not know linux at all to tell him where to find the specs.

Is there, for example, some program similar to sisoft sandra, or could someone tell me an easy way to find out?

Thanks

 

The following should get some of the specs:

Code:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
$ cat /proc/meminfo
$ lspci

There are various others depending on what you are specifically looking for, but that should get you most of it.

 

Thanks.

Looking for CPU, mobo, vidcard, memory, hdd.
Where do you input these codes exactly?

 

You can just input them at any terminal (e.g. Konsole in KDE, aterm, xterm, whatever). You may need to be root though (just type 'sudo' before the commands if he's on Ubuntu, otherwise use 'su'). For the hdd you will want:

Code:

$ df -h

Not sure about the mobo though - you might need to get that from thew BIOS.

 

OK, thanks a lot....really got to look into linux someday=)

 

lshw will tell you all that