diagnostics

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What flavor are you using? There are various tools.

/proc has loads of info

/etc/$whatever will list other stuff like network etc...

And if you're booting to GUI, are you using GNOME or KDE? Each have there own various hardware equivilencies to msinfo32.exe

The important thing here is to remember that the *nix kernel builds to the CPU type you're running, so you can dig further using that information as well.

#cat /proc/meminfo
#cat /proc/cpuinfo

Don't forget your fdisk -l to check disk types

and if you're using scsi/ide/sata/sas you're /dev /sbin etc.. directories.

Each fllavor has its own tools so I would really need to know which one you're using to advise further.