{"id":266,"date":"2018-04-29T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=266"},"modified":"2024-12-27T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:12:34","slug":"hardinfo","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/portfolio\/hardinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardinfo2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/hardinfo2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardinfo2<\/a> is the successor to the 2003 created program <a href=\"http:\/\/hardinfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hardinfo<\/a>. Being a graphical tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/hardinfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hardinfo<\/a> provides easy access to exhaustive information about the hardware on which Linux is running, and it may also create a report about its findings in HTML format. The whole thing is rounded off by the option of running several CPU and FPU benchmarks.<\/p>\n<h3>Disable the theme<\/h3>\n<p>For better readability you may want to disable the colourful backgrounds of Hardinfo2. You can do so in the menue by choosing <em>View &gt; Theme &gt; Disable Theme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Installation<\/h3>\n<p>The program can be installed directly from Ubuntu&#8217;s Universe package source:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install hardinfo<\/pre>\n<p>Since Ubuntu 24.10, this command installs hardinfo2, because hardinfo is merely a transitional package.<\/p>\n<h3>Alternatives<\/h3>\n<p>If you prefer to find out about the hardware in the console, for example to check whether the provider has actually installed the promised RAM bars on a remote rental server, use the command line tool <a href=\"https:\/\/ezix.org\/project\/wiki\/HardwareLiSter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lshw<\/a> instead. Another way to analyze the hardware is provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nongnu.org\/dmidecode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dmidecode<\/a>. As the name suggests, it evaluates the DMI (<a href=\"https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desktop_Management_Interface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desktop Management Interface<\/a>) table of the BIOS, which the kernel also uses for hardware detection at system startup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2024, Hardinfo2 is the successor to the 2003 created program Hardinfo. Being a graphical tool, Hardinfo provides easy access to exhaustive information about the hardware on which Linux is running, and it may also create a report about its findings in HTML format. The whole thing is rounded off by the option of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[21],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-266","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-system-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/266\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}