Hardinfo2 offers System Information and Benchmark for Linux Systems. It is able to obtain information from both hardware and basic software. It can benchmark your system and compare to other machines online. Features include: Report generation (in either
No, it is correct that many informations can be found from kernel, but hardinfo2 does not just collect all these into a nice interface (GUI+CLI) but also adds extra information from blobs and internal tables and routines.