Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Open Source Fan Control Alternatives for Linux
Fan Control is not available for Linux but there are a few alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is Lm-Sensors. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Fan Control and three of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Fan Control are CPU Frequency Selector and fancontrol.
Alternatives list
cinnamon-cpufreq-applet - Port of Gnome 3 CPUFreq applet to Cinnamon - with some fixes.
12 fancontrol alternativesfancontrol is a shell script for use with lm_sensors. It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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