hwinfo Alternatives

hwinfo is described as '/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support' and is a system information utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to hwinfo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best hwinfo alternative is CPU-Z, which is free. Other great apps like hwinfo are Rainmeter, HWiNFO (32/64), Speccy and Libre Hardware Monitor.

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    read-edid

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    read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996 (except for newer ones with 256-byte EDID's - WiP), assuming the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    yacpi

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    Yacpi is an acpi monitoring program for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status and ac status on notebooks. The main reason why i wrote this program is, because i don't like the acpi program, which is included in debian :) It displays things like...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    vbetool

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    vbetool is a small application that executes code from the BIOS of your video card. This is mostly useful for reinitialising the hardware, for instance after ACPI suspend/resuming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Speccy

    Get an advanced and fast system info tool that provides a detailed overview of your PC's hardware. Enjoy real-time temperature monitoring, snapshot sharing, and offline capability. Available as an installer or portable versio...

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    driconf

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    DRIconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    lsscsi

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    Uses information in sysfs (Linux kernels 2.6.0 and later) to list all scsi devices (or hosts) currently attached to the system. Options can be used to control the amount and form of information provided for each device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    lsdisk

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    Creates a list of attached disks without root privileges (similar as ldisk -lu, but with extensive device information).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    The OpenGL Hardware Capability Viewer

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    Client application for the OpenGL hardware capability database. This tool detects, displays and uploads OpenGL hardware reports to the OpenGL hardware database at http://opengl.gpuinfo.org.

    5 The OpenGL Hardware Capability Viewer alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Freshfetch

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    Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Bfetch

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    SuperB Fetch (a.k.a bfetch) is a SuperB general-purpose fetch displayer written in portable sh that takes user commands output and changes how it displays dynamically with the terminal size.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    SysInfo Detector

     1 like

    Gather information about your computer; detect your hardware devices, type, model, and other information, even if the system has no drivers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. OpenGL Extensions Viewer icon

    OpenGL Extensions Viewer

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    A software program which displays information about the current OpenGL 3D accelerator and new Vulkan 3D API. This program displays the vendor name, the version implemented, the renderer name and the extensions of the current OpenGL 3D accelerator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    hddtemp

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    hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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