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Bug#370318: tasksel: Please provide hardinfo in desktop-environment task



Eduardo Silva wrote:
> Hardinfo is both a gtk2 and text program that shows all the hardware on the system. 
> The gtk2 version is placed under system tools menu in Gnome, as is very slick, simple 
> and effective. I find it easier to understand, and better than ubuntu's equivalent.
>  
> A gui program like this is very important in the desktop-environment task, I think, 
> because the #1 question users have when some hardware isn't working is, "but what 
> hardware do I have?". Using this program, they don't have to learn the more exoteric 
> lspci and lsusb commands.

Good idea. You said it was a text program too; if so it might make sense
to integrate it into installation reports. But I cannot seem to find a
way to run it in text mode.

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