man I suck at Linux... I have Deb 4 and all I want to do is display my system information in the console but idk the command. been searching google and the deb homepage.

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List pci devices: lspci

List USB devices: lsusb

Displays loaded modules: lsmod

Lots of info: dmesg

for information on advanced use man

man man for help on using man

Hope that gets you started and good luck

lshw knows a lot on your hardware. Recently I was noted to http://conky.sourceforge.net/ for a fancy GUI

Anyway, I've created a small script collecting info on your hardware (with help of others I do admit) you can find here Make it executable and run as root. Obviously you can amend the (GPL'ed) script to include data you want to see.

You can also try inxi if you're looking for something concise or usable from, say, irssi.

dmidecode - Dump Desktop Management Interface data
hwinfo - Hardware identification system
hardinfo - Displays system information
sysinfo - display computer and system information
inxi - System info script for irc (forked from infobash by locsmith)

$ inxi -F
System: Host craigevil Kernel 2.6.30-1.dmz.3-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (HT) cache 1024 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) bmips 5592.36
Clock Speeds: (1) 2792.606 MHz (2) 2792.606 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.6.1.901 Res: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915G GEM 20090418 2009Q1 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.4.4 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.20
Network: Card Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 at port dcc0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 176.1GB (19.0% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC WD1600JS-75N 160.0GB 2: USB /dev/sdf DataTraveler 2.0 16.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 103G used: 19G (19%) ID:swap-1 size: 0.13GB used: 0.00GB (1%)
Info: Processes 101 Uptime 2 days Memory 274.6/493.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.17

or for more detailed info :
$ inxi -Flfpu
System: Host craigevil Kernel 2.6.30-1.dmz.3-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (HT) cache 1024 KB bmips 5592.36
Clock Speeds: (1) 2792.606 MHz (2) 2792.606 MHz
CPU Flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts
acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl
cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
Graphics: Card Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.6.1.901 Res: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 915G GEM 20090418 2009Q1 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.4.4 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.20
Network: Card Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 at port dcc0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 176.1GB (19.0% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC WD1600JS-75N 160.0GB 2: USB /dev/sdf DataTraveler 2.0 16.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 103G used: 19G (19%) dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: 5603c42b-2d73-4b60-a954-ad232cf5c0de
ID:/media/KINGSTON size: 16G used: 13G (86%) dev: /dev/sdf1 label: KINGSTON uuid: 3433-3231
ID:swap-1 size: 0.13GB used: 0.00GB (2%) dev: /dev/ramzswap0 label: N/A uuid: N/A
Info: Processes 101 Uptime 2 days Memory 285.6/493.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.17