What commands should i type in the terminal to display my system information in Linux?

Thanks to the Yahoo Linux Community, i took my first step and installed Linux Mint Helina into my system. I play around with it a little and really like it but I do not have any knowledge on how to install any drivers.



I tried to install pcwizard so that i could see my system information but unfortunately the software is not compatible with Linux. I not sure what i need to do, its totally a new environment for me.What commands should i type in the terminal to display my system information in Linux?A couple of things you need to know about Linux and *nix environments.



First, Linux is not Windows, so nothing that runs on Windows runs on Linux. There are exceptions. Some popular Windows apps have Linux versions (Firefox, Thunderbird for mail, Adobe Acrobat Reader). There's also a tool called Wine that allow you to run Windows programs from inside Linux. But stick with just Linux for now.



One doesn't install drivers for Linux the way you do in Windows. Most hardware is automatically detected and configured in the installation process. Anything exotic might need to have a module or library installed, but you can nearly always do that through the software manager. Check at the Mint or Ubuntu forms for any assistance on this.



Also. look on the system menus. There are lots of tools that will provide all the information you need about your system.



Also, from the console, there is no one tool that tells you everything. Linux and similar systems include a wide variety fo smaller tools and programs, each of which handles a specific task. For example:



ps -ef (this will give you a list of all the currently running processes).



lspci (gives a list of all the hardware on various system interfaces)



mount (gives you a list of all currently mounted drives and storage devices.



When a list of things goes beyond a screen page, you can "page' the output by piping it through a pager tool like "less":



ps -ef | less



This presents the information a page at a time, and you press the space bar to read the next page.What commands should i type in the terminal to display my system information in Linux?The first link has a number of good commands to display your system info.

To learn more about your system and learn how to install drivers I would suggest that you read the linux mint users manual, see the second link.

Good luckWhat commands should i type in the terminal to display my system information in Linux?I don't know what PC Wizard does, but you can get a lot of system information from the /proc filesystem. For example, type:



cat /proc/cpuinfo



and it will list information about your cpu. There is all kinds of info in your /proc filesystem. You can do a 'ls /proc' to find other files and directories to look at. I'm sure there must be a graphical interface to this, but 'cat' has always worked fine for me.



-PHILWhat commands should i type in the terminal to display my system information in Linux?
Try



sudo lshw