Hardinfo is a program that automatically collects and displays information about the operating system and the computer that is running, with great detail. Reports of organized aspects of the operating system and configuration of hardware devices connected to the computer. This is an application written to run on GNU / Linux and is designed for the Gnome desktop.

Furthermore, it contains some tests for performance measurement of computer equipment (benchmarks). At the end of the menu are located different tasks can be done and click on any of them to perform them. Just at that moment it appears that system resources are affected by the completion of each test, and ends when a comparison sample of the machine with two others: an Intel Celeron M processor at 1.5 GHz and a PowerPC 740/750 to 280.00 MHz.

The different benchmarks that can be implemented are:

Zlib CPU (64MB of data compression)
CPU Fibonacci (calculating the number of Fibonacci 42)
CPU MD5 (generation MD5 algorithm for 312MB of data)
CPU SHA1 (SHA1 hash in 312MB of data)
CPU Blowfish (encryption algorithm on)
FPU raytracing (algorithm synthesis of three-dimensional images)

Another important feature of the programme is that incopora the ability to generate reports containing all the information collected and the results of the measurements of performance. The documents are exported as HTML files, so they can be opened and viewed from any Web browser to read them.

The application can be installed from the repository system in most distributions. You can also download the source code and an automatic installer by visiting official program.