Chapter 3 - Into The Hardware #

One of the nifty things about Linux is you don’t need to install extra software to check out the deeper parts of your hardware. While on Windows you might need a tool like CPU-Z to look at information about the CPU on Linux you can do it out of the box. Even better, Linux makes changing values and tweaking performance easier, too.

Before we get started, let’s just look into abyss, hopefully when we’re done you’ll be able to recognize everything in this picture:

Image by Sadeq Shahsvan