Dmidecode is described as 'Reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of' and is a system information utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Dmidecode for Linux and Windows. The best Dmidecode alternative is SIW. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try lshw or hwinfo. Other great apps like Dmidecode are Glow - System Analysis Software, DirectX Diagnostic Tool, Windows System Information and WattmanGTK.
read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996 (except for newer ones with 256-byte EDID's - WiP), assuming the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).
DRIconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.
hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature).
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