Hardinfo2
Homepage with Benchmark compare and more: https://www.hardinfo2.org/
General News:
• Lots of Maintenance/testing/doc/bugfixing and updating for current distros
• Keeping it working for ~10 years of old distros and tools
• Improved and extended System Information
• New Benchmarks that works from slow to fast machines
• New GPU Draw, GPU OpenGL+Vulkan, Storage Benchmark, Cache/Mem benchmark
• Added themes and dark/light mode
• Remade the lost website
• CLI improved for command line usage
• Lots of UI/UX improvements -> Refreshed
Updates from 2.2.10
• PACKAGING: Added vulkan-headers, glslang-tools, libdecor (if wayland), - See #143 IMPORTANT
• New Vulkan Benchmark - simple gears benchmark - but shows that vulkan works for the machine.
• Added CLI topic to filter the CLI report and show sections/parts only - See #152
• Added User Note to synchronize dialog to request certain benchmarks - See #156
• Added HWCAPS to show which are supported by cpu+distro - eg. x86-64-V2
• Added support for OpenSuse leap 15.6+16, fixed Tumbleweed, fixed Alt Linux
• Turkish, Chinese, Danish & Russian Translations updated
• Speedup Application dialog handling and fixed crashes
• Improve StatusMessage & ProgressBar handling with correct benchmark timing
• Fixed Close handling to avoid crashes when updating information and closing.
• Updated Logo
• Minor Fixes: Crash in vendor match (fwupd on nuc6), Crash on WSL1 missing network entries.
• Minor Fixes: Disable GPU benchmarks in CLI mode. Disable unused lsscsi, lspci, lsusb.
• Minor Fixes: Treeview handling race issues, Cachemem benchmark low mem machines
• Minor Fixes: Distro flavor detection, HTML report improved, Added support for more ARM
• Minor Fixes: CMake fixed for ALT Linux building, Added cpu core frequency to sensors
Updates from 2.2.7
• PACKAGING: Check if a missing package message window appears on program start, after installing on empty system. IMPORTANT
• Fixed sparc32 & sparc64 building
• Added Release info in CMakeLists.txt
• Added Packaging check for improved hardinfo2 package across distros.
• Added Arch Linux branch building for makepkg & CPack
• Fixed homepath not found after first storage benchmark run
• Cachemem improved for non high precision clocks
• Added Vendefoul Wolf & Winux distros
• Minor: Removed Garbage Collector, Fixed many MemLeaks, Improved scroll to results, 3 possible crashes
• Minor: Fixed fedora URL, Added default 250 benchmark results
• Fixes for RedHat & ALT Linux Icons
• Russian, Danish, Brazilian language updated
Updates from before 2.2.7
see https://github.com/hardinfo2/hardinfo2/releases/release-2.2.7
Updates from before 2.1.11
see https://github.com/hardinfo2/hardinfo2/releases/release-2.1.11
Release info
This version is identical to previous prerelease except version
This version is only build by distros.
Package name: hardinfo2
must obsolete/break+replace/update hardinfo+alias hardinfo2 (In order to upgrade hardinfo on older distros that had hardinfo - we can go back to FC23/DEB7/EPEL6/U14.04 ~10years - please backport this app, thanx)
How hardinfo2 is released:
- First at least one prerelease with testbuilds using CPack
- Version number stepped
- Release for Package Maintainers - this version is only available in distros.
- Version number stepped (master unstable)
NOTE: The build-in CPack is probably only used by GitHub developers/users.
Distro releases are always build with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
Redhat:
topazus - Fedora+Redhat Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/hardinfo2/
OpenSuse:
Kieltux - OpenSuse/Suse packaging maintainer - Status: Done
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/utilities/hardinfo2
Debian:
hosiet - Debian+Ubuntu Packaging Maintainer - Status: debian 13++/backport debian 12 done, ubuntu missing
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hardinfo
Arch:
yochananmarqos - Arch Packaging Maintainer - Status: Ready in AUR, missing extra packages
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=hardinfo2
Manjaro:
yochananmarqos - Manjaro Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done - in extra packages
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/hardinfo2
Mageia:
david-geiger - Mageia Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done
https://madb.mageialinux-online.org/show?distribution=cauldron&rpm=hardinfo2
OpenMandriva:
AngryPenguinPL - OpenMandriva Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/hardinfo2
Gentoo:
quincyf467 - Gentoo Packaging Maintainer - Status: Ready in Guru, missing gentoo packages
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/log/?qt=grep&q=hardinfo2
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-admin/hardinfo
Slackware:
B. Watson - Slackware Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/hardinfo2/
Nixpkgs/OS
sigmanificient - Nixpkgs/OS Packaging Maintainer - Status: Done
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by-name/ha/hardinfo2/package.nix
ALT Linux
k0tran & linkinvd - ALT Linux Package Maintainers - Status: Done - CPACK not ok due to old rpmbuild
https://packages.altlinux.org/en/sisyphus/srpms/hardinfo2/
Only attached source - see https://hardinfo2.org/download for precompiled packages for most used distros