Linux admins have a love affair with information. The more information they can gather the better. And that’s a good thing, as the more informed you are, the more apt you’ll be to make smart decisions. This applies to administration tasks, security, development and just about anything else you can imagine.

Besides, why wouldn’t you want to be as informed about your systems as possible?

Fortunately, Linux has a good amount of commands for this very task. In this guide from TechRepublic Premium, Jack Wallen will introduce you to some of the top commands and how to use them.

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BIOS DETAILS

This information can be helpful to have when you want to find out what your BIOS supports or the manufacture and/or version of your bios. To locate this information, you make use of the dmidecode command, which dumps DMI table (aka SMBIOS) content into a human-readable format.

The dmidecode command can be used for BIOS, system and processor. To use the command to locate information about your BIOS, you’d issue:

sudo dmidecode -t bios

The above command will display the vendor, version, release date and much more information.

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