Last Updated on May 7, 2026
I-Nex is an open source system and hardware information tool similar to the Windows utility, CPU-Z. It comes with a well designed graphical user interface that allows users to view information about their system hardware.
Besides displaying hardware information, I-Nex can also generate advanced reports which can be forwarded to a nopaste service.
I-Nex uses a new version of Gambas which can make installation non-trivial for some distributions.
Key Features
- Tabbed interface.
- CPU:
- Main information.
- Family / Model / Stepping / Cores / Phy id.
- Address sizes / Bogomips.
- Flags.
- x86 64-Bit Extensions / Hardware Virtualization / HT.
- Cache:
- L1 Data.
- L1 Instruction.
- Level 2.
- Level 3.
- GPU:
- Graphics card.
- OpenGL:
- OpenGL Vendor.
- OpenGL Renderer.
- OpenGL Version.
- Present resolution.
- Available resolutions.
- Mobo:
- Manufacturer.
- Model.
- Bios: Manufacturer, Date, Version.
- Sound:
- Version.
- ID.
- Modules.
- HWdep.
- PCM.
- Drives:
- Drive vendor / rev.
- Device model / Max sectors.
- Mount point.
- Device uuid.
- Mount width.
- Device real size / State.
- Filesystem type / Modalias.
- Ext range / Range / Removable.
- Discard granularity / Discard zeroes data / Discard max bytes.
- HW sector size / Add random.
- Max sectors kb / Max HW sectors kb.
- Max segments / Max segment size.
- Read ahead kb / Scheduler.
- System:
- Host name.
- Distribution.
- Edition.
- Time zone.
- GCC version.
- X.org version.
- GLX version.
- Architecture.
- Shell.
- Default LM/DM.
- Number of installed packages.
- System uptime.
- Kernel:
- Shows found kernels.
- Kernel command line.
- Module information.
- Memory:
- RAM used.
- SWAP used.
- Total, Used, Free, Shared, Buffers, Cached, and SWAP total.
- Web:
- Ethernet controller.
- Show receive and transmit.
- USB | Input:
- USB device plugged.
- Manufacturer.
- Product.
- Max power.
- Speed.
- Version.
- Serial.
- idVendor / idProduct.
- General reports: CPU Tab, Motherboard / Bios Tab, Sound Tab, Graphics Tab, Include lspci, Include lsusb, Include /proc/scsi/scsi, Include dmesg, Include unity support test.
- Send report to a nopaste service.
- Take a screenshot.
Website: github.com/i-nex/I-Nex
Support:
Developer: Michat Gtowienka
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Related Software
| GUI System Profilers | |
|---|---|
| Hardinfo2 | A continuation of HardInfo offering system information and benchmarking |
| CPU-X | Similar tool to CPU-Z but differs in a few important ways |
| I-Nex | Gambas based alternative to CPU-Z |
| HardInfo | System Profiler and Benchmark |
| KInfoCenter | Centralized and convenient overview of your system |
| Examine | System information viewer for the COSMIC Desktop |
| CPU-G | Python based alternative to CPU-Z |
| CPU Info | Presents detailed hardware and software information |
| Big Hardware Info | View and share hardware information |
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