HARDINFO(1)

💖 HARDINFO 💖 (section 1, bestie, it's a User Command)

okay so before we even start — this whole page is the manual for hardinfo, a System profiler and benchmark for Linux systems, and yes you're gonna read all of it because I said so 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

HardInfo — System profiler and benchmark for Linux systems. 💅

🌸 USAGE 🌸

hardinfo [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, information comes out.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So bestie, listen. HardInfo is a system profiler and a benchmark for Linux systems, and what it does is: it gathers info about your hardware and your operating system, it runs benchmarks, and it generates reports. And the way it shows you all of that is through a simple and intuitive GUI. no cap. it's giving "control panel but make it cute."

The info is grouped into four main groups: Computer, Devices, Network, and Benchmarks.

• Computer — this group is mostly about the basic software situation. Like, it includes but is not limited to info about the operating system (kernel version, C library, distribution, etc.), kernel modules, locale information, filesystem usage, users/groups, and development tools. so yeah, the software tea ☕
• Devices — this one is about hardware, as detected by the operating system. and here's the thing, and I need you to hear me on this: Hardinfo is incapable of detecting hardware by itself. it does not snoop. it literally just lists what the operating system was able to find. it includes, but does not limit itself to, info about the processor (including cache layout, known bugs, and feature flags with their explanation — okay that's actually iconic), devices (such as USB, PCI, and Input devices), among other things. 👑
• Network — lists info about network interfaces, the routing table, DNS servers, and other networking-related topics. 🌐
• Benchmarks — these let you perform simple benchmarks to test CPU and FPU capabilities, plus some of the graphical user interface capabilities as well. AND, in previous versions, it was possible to send the benchmark results to a central server so you could compare your benchmarks with other Hardinfo users — but that service has been deactivated in the mean time. rip to that era 💀

Now, reports: you can generate them either by invoking Hardinfo with special command-line parameters (see below, babes) or by clicking the "Generate Report" button in the GUI. Reports can be customized in the GUI and saved in either HTML or plain text formats. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — Show help options
• -r, --generate-report — creates a report and prints to standard output
• -f, --report-format — chooses a report format (text, html)
• -b, --run-benchmark — run benchmark; requires benchmark.so to be loaded
• -l, --list-modules — lists modules
• -m, --load-module — specify module to load
• -a, --autoload-deps — automatically load module dependencies
• -v, --version — shows program version and quit

lowkey a short list but every single one of them eats, fr fr 🔥

🎀 AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS 🎀

For current maintainers committing, see the AUTHORS.md file 📄 — and more info is at https://github.com/lpereira/hardinfo/graphs/contributors. More contributions are in each file's source headers. everybody who touched this deserves their flowers 🌷

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

HardInfo its Copyright © 2003, 2009-2017 Leandro A. F. Pereira <leandro@hardinfo.org>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 😭 (yes I'm yelling that part on purpose, it matters)

This manpage was created by PICCORO Lenz McKAY <mckaygerhard@gmail.com> for the hardinfo project. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was version 0.6, dated July 2017, and it lives in the HARDINFO(1) section of your friendly neighbourhood manual. go profile something. periodt. ✨🎀🦋