Hardinfo2 is a system information and benchmarking application for Linux. It continues the work of the original HardInfo project while adding support for modern hardware and Linux distributions.
The application gathers information about the processor, memory, storage, graphics, devices, operating system and other parts of a machine and presents it through a GTK interface.
Its benchmarking capabilities have also expanded considerably, covering several areas of system performance rather than simply providing a few processor tests.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays detailed processor information including topology, features and caches.
- Reports memory, DMI and supported SPD information.
- Lists PCI, USB and storage devices.
- Displays operating system, kernel, filesystem and network information.
- Shows available hardware sensor information.
- Provides processor and memory benchmarks.
- Includes storage benchmarking facilities.
- Can benchmark network performance using iperf3.
- Provides OpenGL and Vulkan graphics benchmarks where the required components are available.
- Compares benchmark results with results from other systems.
- Generates system reports in HTML or plain text.
- Can display firmware information through fwupd where available.
Website: github.com/hardinfo2/hardinfo2
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Developer: Hardinfo2 Project
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Hardinfo2 is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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