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+[I] Hardware Lister (lshw)
+
+[T] lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information
+[T] on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory
+[T] configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
+[T] and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
+
+[U] http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html
+
+[A] Lyonel Vincent <lyonel@ezix.org>
+[M] Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
+
+[C] base/system
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] A.01.07
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
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+[D] 0 lshw-A.01.07.tar.gz http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/files/
+