Please read the Installation instructions for information on installing SysInfo.
In order to fund future improvements to SysInfo, a new license scheme is introduced with version 3.5. The new license allows no-cost use by non-profit and educational institutions and requires payment for use by all other users. More information, including pricing is available by clicking here
SysInfo will automatically detect if it's being run on an educational or non-profit system if the domain name of the system is one of the known educational or non-profit domains. Currently this includes:
SysInfo will automatically allow 60-days of free use for demonstration purposes whenever run with no license found.
Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) | Full support for all Solaris 7 systems, including 64-bit (UltraSPARC) systems. |
IRIX 6.5 | Add support for IRIX 6.5. |
Linux 2.0 on x86 | This is the first version of SysInfo to include support for Linux. All but device (hardware) information is available. Linux 2.1 should also work, but hasn't been tested. See Linux Notes for more information. |
FreeBSD on x86 | Introducing support for FreeBSD on x86 systems. FreeBSD versions 2.2.x and 3.0 are supported. |
BSD/OS on x86 | Introducing support for BSDi's BSD/OS on x86 systems. BSD/OS 3.1 and 4.0 are supported. |
HP-UX 11.0 | Add support for HP-UX 11.0. |
The following table indicates what platforms are supported for this release of SysInfo. This platform list is subject to change with each dot dot release of SysInfo.
SysInfo Class of Information | |||||||
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Man. | OS | Hard- ware | Gen- eral | Ker- nel | Sys- conf | Dev- ice | Notes |
Sun | Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.1.x) | SPARC | Y | Y | Y | Y | Not fully tested, but should work. |
Sun | Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) | SPARC | Y | Y | Y | Y | Solaris 2.5.1 - 7 (SunOS 5.5.1 - 5.7) verified working. See Platform Notes |
Sun | Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) | x86 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) tested on limited hardware. |
IBM | AIX 3.x, 4.x | RS6000 | Y | N | Y | Y | |
SGI | IRIX 5.3, 6.x | MIPS | Y | N | Y | Y | IRIX 5.x may no longer work. Tested on IRIX 6.2 and 6.5. |
HP | HP-UX 9.x 10.x 11.x | hp9000 | Y | Y | N | Y | |
BSD/OS 3.1, 4.0 | x86 | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
FreeBSD 2.2.x, 3.0 | x86 | Y | Y | Y | Y | See Platform Notes | |
Linux 2.0 | x86 | Y | Y | Y | P | See Platform Notes | |
KEY: Y - Yes, it's supported N - No, it's not supported P - Planned |
Release 3.5.1 features improved support for FreeBSD 3.0 and fixes for a number of non-critical bugs as compared to release 3.5. Please read the CHANGES file for details.
Please see the Version 3.5 Release Notes for information about that release.
Solaris 7 |
Starting with Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7),
you will need two binaries for each
version of the OS - one for 32-bit systems and one for 64-bit systems (all
Ultra machines are 64-bit).
You can check which version you are running by looking at the
first line of /etc/motd
for the phrase "64-bit".
To build a binary of SysInfo for a system running a 64-bit kernel, you must have a compatible compiler. Sun Workshop C Compiler 5.0 is the first Sun compiler to support this via the -xarch=v9 option. At the time this document was written there was no version of GCC which supports 64-bit compiles. |
Sun/SPARC EDID | VESA Extend Display Identification Data (EDID) for monitors appears to only be available from Creator Series 2 (FFB2) and later Creator frame buffers. No sign of EDID data on any other Sun framebuffer so far. |
Linux | There is no support for devices in SysInfo on Linux platforms at this time. This is due to lack of a consistant kernel interface for acquiring such information. The Linux core developers are aware of this lack and plan to add appropriate plumbing in a future Linux kernel. That is likely to be Linux 2.4, but may not make that release. |
FreeBSD | There is currently support for finding devices on PCI and ISA buses. There is no EISA support. |