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Howto: View The Hardware and BIOS Without Touching a Screw-Driver on Linux System

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Sometimes it may be necessary to view the hardware information of a server, laptop or desktop without opening it’s cover. In this post, I’ll explain how to use dmidecode Linux command to get the hardware and BIOS information of the server. DMI stands for Desktop Management interface and SMBIOS stands for System Management BIOS. dmidecode [...]

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The Ultimate Linux Testing and Benchmarking Package - Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.0 Released

Today marks Phoronix.com’s 4th anniversary and in celebration we have announced the release of Phoronix Test Suite “Trondheim” 1.0. Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for Linux and is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative tests in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.
This GPLv3 software is shipping [...]

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Phoronix Test Suite 0.60 Released

The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for Linux and is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.

“For those of you interested in trying out new open-source software this weekend, Phoronix Test Suite 0.6.0 has been released with an arsenal [...]

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Running Ubuntu Mobile On My Desktop

Follow the instructions on this page, and you’ve got Ubuntu Mobile running on your desktop. This is mostly for the purpose of technology preview as well as for the developers.

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Phoronix Test Suite 0.2 Adds New Features

“Less than a week ago we pushed out the first public release of the Phoronix Test Suite. This GPLv3 Linux benchmarking software had received a great deal of interest, but v0.1 did have a few bugs and a number of uncompleted features. Yesterday though we pushed out version 0.2 of the Phoronix [...]

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