A simple way to tell if your OS is installed on SSD or not is to run a command from a terminal window called lsblk -o name,rota. Look at the ROTA column of the output and there you will see numbers. A 0 means no rotation speed or SSD drive. A 1 would indicate a drive with platters that rotate. My Ubuntu is installed on my /dev/sdb drive, so we can see that one indicates a 0 which means it is installed on a SSD drive. I put after this example of how to tell where your OS is installed using df. NOTE: Ubuntu that is installed as a client…

CPU hardware information The cpu information includes details about the processor, like the architecture, vendor name, model, number of cores, speed of each core etc. There are quite a few commands on linux to get those details about the cpu hardware, and here is a brief about some of the commands. 1. /proc/cpuinfo The /proc/cpuinfo file contains details about individual cpu cores. Output its contents with less or cat. $ less /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz stepping : 10 microcode : 0xa07 cpu MHz : 1998.000 cache size : 2048 KB…