Do you want to display a super cool logo of your Linux distribution along with basic hardware information? Look no further try awesome screenfetch and linux_logo utilities to display Linux logo with hardware configuration on screen.

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screenFetch is a CLI bash script to show system/theme info in screenshots. It runs on a Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and many other Unix-like system. From the man page:

This handy Bash script can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information + ASCII distribution logos you see in everyone’s screenshots nowadays. It will auto-detect your distribution and display an ASCII version of that distribution’s logo and some valuable information to the right.

Installing screenfetch on Linux

Open the Terminal application. Simply type the following apt-get command/apt command on a Debian or Ubuntu or Mint Linux based system:

$ sudo apt-get install screenfetch

Fig.01: Installing screenfetch using apt-get

Installing screenfetch MacOS X

Type the following brew command

$ brew install screenfetch

Fig.02: Installing screenfetch using brew command

FreeBSD install screenfetch

Type the following pkg command:

$ sudo pkg install sysutils/screenfetch

Fig.03: FreeBSD install screenfetch using pkg

Fedora install screenfetch

Execute the following dnf command:

$ sudo dnf install screenfetch

Fig.04: Fedora Linux 22 install screenfetch using dnf

OpenSUSE Linux install screenfetch

We need to use the zypper command:

$ sudo zypper install screenfetch

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