This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a utility that prints system information.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to uname | |
|---|---|
| Neofetch | System Information Tool written in Bash |
| inxi | Full featured CLI system information tool |
| hwinfo | Probe for the hardware present in the system |
| lshw | Hardware lister |
| macchina | System information fetcher |
| Fastfetch | Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information |
| Freshfetch | Fresh take on Neofetch |
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All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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