# smxi/inxi

inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

Repository: https://github.com/smxi/inxi
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/inxi
Homepage: http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
Language: Perl
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: system-administration, linux, bsd, perl5, perl, sysadmin-tool, remote-admin-tool, support-tools, sysinfo, cli-utilities, arm
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-12T20:05:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4031, "days_push": 964, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1280, forks 90 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.614855+00:00)

## What it is
inxi is a full-featured command line system information tool written in Perl that reports detailed hardware, CPU, graphics, network, audio, battery, disk, kernel, and desktop data on Linux and BSD systems. It is built for console and IRC use and is widely used as a debugging aid for forum and technical support to quickly ascertain a user's system configuration.

## Use cases
- show my system hardware info from the command line
- check cpu ram and disk details on linux
- get system specs for a tech support forum post
- find out what gpu and driver version i have
- list audio and network devices and their drivers
- generate a system information report for debugging
- check battery health and sensor readings in terminal
- export system info as json or xml

## When to choose
- you need a quick one-shot system summary on Linux or BSD with no daemon required
- you're helping someone debug and need their hardware/software configuration fast, e.g. for IRC or forums
- you want broad hardware coverage (audio, graphics, network, battery, sensors, USB) from a lightweight Perl script
- you need machine-readable json/xml output of system inventory

## When to avoid
- you need continuous monitoring, alerting, or historical metrics rather than point-in-time snapshots
- you need a graphical system information utility
- your platform is Windows or macOS, which inxi does not target
- you need fleet-wide centralized hardware inventory management

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: bsd, cli
- tags: system-information, sysinfo, hardware-detection, perl, irc, technical-support, debugging, json-output, xml-output, sensors, system-administration, arm, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- smxi/inxi (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.614855+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:39.044038+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/smxi/inxi (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.614855+00:00, sha a812c5af508e)
  - homepage: http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.019618+00:00, sha 5341796b6d59)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-man.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.036108+00:00, sha 56b3fbdab178)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-options.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.042535+00:00, sha ba04a4b965e2)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-faqs.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.045146+00:00, sha ddc548682a27)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.031026+00:00, sha 43c095864292)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/source-repos.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.032613+00:00, sha 1ab156af916b)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-installation.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.033993+00:00, sha 543b724945cc)
  - site_page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-tech.htm (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:25.047056+00:00, sha 1e2f3883f428)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.