hardware question

[Bryn M. Reeves]

ann kok wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How can I know the hardware info eg: type of memory
> No need to turn off the machine
> 
> Thank you

You can get a lot of information from the DMI tables provided by the 
BIOS, see the man page for dmidecode. There's also Smolt:

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/

Which captures hardware profiles and (optionally) sends them to a 
central database. You might find this gives you the data in a nicer 
format.

Regards,
Bryn.