Useful Linux Commands to get System Info Details

• Prints information about system hostname and kernel version installed:
uname -a

• Prints information related with the X Window System:
X -version

• List the installed library for S3TC compression (more info here):
glxinfo | grep -i s3tc

• Indicates the path of a particular configuration file:
whereis xorg.conf or locate xorg.conf

• Indicates the path of the binary:
which java

• Check what Linux Desktop Environment is running (thanks to this source):
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

• Executing a program in the terminal and close the terminal without killing the running program:
nohup gedit

• Enable core dump generation on Linux (more info here):
ulimit -c unlimited