Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > dmidecode

\"Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS)table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains adescription of the system's hardware components, as well as otheruseful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision.Part of its code can be found in the Linux kernel, because DMI data maybe used to enable or disable specific portions of code depending on thehardware vendor.\"