hardinfo2.org

System Information and Benchmark for Linux Systems
- Initially created in 2003 by lpereira.
Many has helped testing and develop code, made art/graphics and written
translations for hardinfo2 open source project GPL2+

Developers, Translaters, Graphical Designers, etc. are Welcome
- There is so much fun we can do. Program is written in C. has lot of kernel access,
multi tasking and the webserver is a LAMP (Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP) with
java script frontend where we will add a web app for phone/tablet/PC.
Lots of fun technologies to add on to. Interested?

- Please join Github Discussion. Get Source from GitHub or Download Prebuilds.

Hardinfo2 has been Released.

Latest GitHub Release News:

Other news:
New webpage for hardinfo2 - Linux Benchmarking

Work in Progress:
We are working on releasing the hardinfo2 program in all distros.

Status for Distro branches
Distro Branch	In Distro	Build from Source
Fedora	38 ->	23 ->
Centos/Redhat	7 ->	(6) 7 ->
Alma/Rocky/Oracle	7 ->	(6) 7 ->
SUSE/OpenSUSE	WIP	YES
Debian++	WIP	(7) 8 ->
Ubuntu/Mint/PopOS++	WIP	16 ->
ArchLinux/Garuda/Manjaro AUR	YES	YES
Arch: i686, amd64, ppc64, s390x, armhf/aarch64/armv6/7/8, mips64, riscv64, +++

PS: Numbers in () are working right now but might be unsupported in future releases.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is hardinfo2 just a GUI interface for information that can be read from kernel?: No, it is correct that many informations can be found from kernel, but hardinfo2 does not just collect all these into a nice interface (GUI+CLI) but also adds extra information from blobs and internal tables and routines.

How do I run all benchmarks?: Just press the Synchronize button - It will update all information and benchmarks

How do I set the program to dark mode, if not working from theme settings?: emacs ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini - add:; [Settings]; gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1

Command Line Interface

The hardinfo2 program also has a Command Line Interface, for use in terminals. This can be useful for remote support issues, describing and benchmarking a lot of machines remotely, adding a note to the uploaded benchmarks for identifying a group of benchmarks, etc.

man hardinfo2 shows the following CLI options:

-h, --help	Show help options
-q, --quite	do not print status messages to standard output
-r, --generate-report	creates a report and prints to standard output
-f, --report-format	chooses a report format (text, html)
-g, --result-format	chooses a result format (short, conf, shell)
-b, --run-benchmark	run a specific benchmark eg. -b 'FPU FFT' (Default all benchmarks runs when generate report)
-s, --skip-benchmark	Disables all benchmark runs.
-u, --user-note	adds a user note to data send to server. When added eg. -u 1 synchronization is activated.
-v, --version	shows program version and quit
EXAMPLES	examples of CLI command usage:
hardinfo2 -b 'FPU FFT'	runs only FPU FFT benchmark
hardinfo2 -u 1	enable updates at startup and starts gui (can also be set in gui)
hardinfo2 -u SBC-DK -r	updates data from server, generate CLI report and sends benchmark with user-note
hardinfo2 -r	generates CLI report

Example of remote support issues: hardinfo2 -r -s -q|grep -A3 ^\-BIOS
List of topics available: hardinfo2 -r -s -q|grep ^\-

We plan on making a history page for when Linux was young - This program is from that time and has evolved along side the Kernel. Please submit your input, pictures, stories, etc. on github discussion.

Hardinfo2 has been Released.

hardinfo2 User Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Command Line Interface

New History Page

Credits