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+lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on
+the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
+configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and
+speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI
+(IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).
+
+Information can be output in plain text, XML, or HTML.
+
+It currently supports DMI (x86 and EFI only), OpenFirmware device tree
+(PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, ISA PnP (x86), CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/ATAPI, PCMCIA
+(only tested on x86), USB, and SCSI.
+
+On x86, lshw needs to be run as root to be able to access DMI information
+from the BIOS. Running lshw as a non-root user usually gives much less
+detailed information.