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The HWINFO Story: Martin Malik, the Face and the History Behind the Well-Known Diagnostic Tool | igor´sLAB (www.igorslab.de)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea HWiNFO has been around since 1995, what a great tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love how they resurrected and maintain the DOS version still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

if only he'd make a QT version and make a linux binary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It wouldn't be welcome.

That ecosystem doesn't want binaries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It would be nice if there were ANY tool like it on Linux. As far as I can tell, there isn't, and that's somewhat disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That ecosystem doesn't want binaries.

and that's one of the reasons why there'll never be a "year of the linux desktop"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A container then?