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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: To know about your hardware in-depth, Windows is *required*
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:10 -0000 (UTC)
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 17:31 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 5/9/2024 3:10 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 18:40 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On 5/9/2024 1:00 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 23:31 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>>>> On 5/8/2024 4:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 13:07:00 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The hardware report alone is 13.5K well-formatted lines ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quantity is not quality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        root@theon:~ # (lscpu; lsmem; lsblk; lspci; lshw; lsirq; lsusb) | wc -l
>>>>>>        1197
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That’s one way to summarize my hardware. If you want to drill down to
>>>>>> every single item available:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        root@theon:~ # find /sys -type f | wc -l
>>>>>>        72712
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Meaningless word counts are meaningless.
>>>>>
>>>>> Get some real system info software: AIDA Extreme and HWiNFO.
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows only, of course, like the best software usually is.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Below is ~10% of the AIDA64 Extreme hardware report:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> GuhNoo = pwned.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What information is exclusive to HWinfo?
>>>
>>> $ sudo lscpu > lscpu.txt
>>> $ sudo lsmem > lsmem.txt
>>> $ sudo lsblk > lsblk.txt
>>> $ sudo lspci > lspci.txt
>>> $ sudo lshw  > lshw.txt
>>> $ sudo lsirq > lsirq.txt
>>> sudo: lsirq: command not found
>>> $ sudo lsusb > lsusb.txt
>>> $ cat lscpu.txt lsmem.txt lsblk.txt lspci.txt lshw.txt lsusb.txt > lsall.txt
>>>
>>> $diff HWiNFO.log lsall.txt > diffhw.txt
>>>
>>> lsall.txt  =  206 lines
>>> HWiNFO.log = 3414 lines
>>> diffhw.txt = 3622 lines
>>>
>>> Almost none of the lines in HWiNFO.log are in lsall.txt
>>> Almost none of the lines in lsall.txt are in HWiNFO.log
>>> The one line they share is '---'
>> 
>> Oh. Yeah.. they would use a different format.
>> 
>>> To really compare HWiNFO (or AIDA64) to Linux sysinfo data would require
>>> a Linux person to extract the contents of the hwinfo command, ls*
>>> commands, and /dev and /sys virtual files into a well-formatted text
>>> file (no half-ass GuhNoo effort accepted).  Then I'd have to spend a lot
>>> of time massaging both files to get them to a place where a decent
>>> comparison could be made.
>> 
>> 
>> You could also go through each line of HWinfo and try to find that data
>> in sysinfo.
>
>
> I don't see 'sysinfo' in Windows or Linux.
>
> The Windows 'systeminfo' command output is very brief.


I meant the "Linux sysinfo data" that you mentioned.
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