Ferrix System Monitor — Swiss Knife for Linux Hardware Diagnostics

A simple program for getting information about computer hardware and installed software.

What is FSM?

Ferrix System Monitor is a Rust-crate and program for obtaining information about computer hardware and software. It is designed to work in modern Linux OS distributions.

Motivation

For Linux, there are a bunch of different console programs for getting information about various PC and OS components. In addition, there is an amazing graphics program called Hardinfo (and its sequel, Hardinfo2). However, I wanted to write their simple analog with the following differences:

1. More complete support for modern Linux distributions: displaying information about systemd services, OS boot time, information about installed Flatpak packages, and the ability to reset GNOME environment settings (NOTE: I haven't implemented exactly these functions yet, but I plan to implement them in the future. They will be included in Ferrix v1.0);
2. I needed experience in developing a similar class of programs for Linux. Don't think that Ferrix is any kind of serious professional program — it's just a student's "DIY", nothing more. Use it at your own risk.

Features

System Overview

• Dashboard with key system metrics at a glance;
• Real time monitoring of CPU, memory and others PC's components;

Hardware Information

• Processor details (model name, thread count, frequency, vulnerabilities, supported instructions, etc.);
• Memory specifications;
• Notebook's battery;
• [TODO] Data from DMI tables;
• Mounted filesystems;

Software Information

• Installed system;
• Kernel information;
• Users and groups;
• systemd services;
• Installed packages (deb, rpm);

User Experience

• Modern, clean interface based on iced;
• Minimal dependencies (systemd, glibc, dbus, polkit, xdg, xorg);
• Fast startup and low memory footprint.

Installation

Download pre-built binaries from GitHub Releases

... or build Ferrix from sources:

git clone https://github.com/mskrasnov/ferrix
cd ferrix

make build
sudo make install

# Run `sudo make uninstall` to uninstall app

Build dependencies

• Rust 2025;
• Modern Linux system with systemd and d-bus (tested on Debian 12.2);

Technology stack

• OS: Linux with glibc, dbus, polkit, xorg and systemd;
• Multilanguage: English and Russian translations;
• Programming lang.: Rust;
• GUI: iced;

❤️ Support Ferrix System Monitor

Developing Ferrix System Monitor takes time and passion. If you find it useful, please consider supporting its development:

• Star ⭐ this repo! It helps others discover Ferrix;
• Write comments, questions, bug reports, or suggestions for new functionality in issues.
• If you are from Russia, send me a donation 💰 in Boosty. This will help me keep my enthusiasm alive, as well as pay my mobile internet bills so that I can continue working on Ferrix.
• Spread the world! Tell friends, post on forums.

License

Ferrix System Monitor (ferrix-lib, ferrix-app) is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license.