Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool

 

Table of contents

• 1. Support
• 2. Installation
  • 2.1 Installing from a package
  • 2.2 Building from source (Linux/Windows/macOS)
  • 2.3 Android
• 3. Examples
  • 3.1 x86_64 CPUs
  • 3.2 ARM CPUs
• 4. Colors and style
• 5. Implementation
• 6. Bugs or improvements
• 7. Acknowledgements
• 8. cpufetch for GPUs (gpufetch)

1. Support

cpufetch supports the following architectures:

• x86 / x86_64
• ARM
• PowerPC

OS	x86_64 / x86	ARM	PowerPC	Notes
GNU/Linux	✔️	✔️	✔️	Best support
Windows	✔️	❌	❌	Some information may be missing. Colors will be used if supported
Android	✔️	✔️	❌	Some information may be missing
macOS	✔️	✔️	❌	Only the Apple M1 is supported in ARM
FreeBSD	✔️	❌	❌	Some information may be missing.

2. Installation

2.1 Installing from a package

Choose the right package for your operating system:

If there is no available package for your OS, you can download the cpufetch binary from the releases page, or build cpufetch from source (see below).

2.2 Building from source (Linux/Windows/macOS)

You will need a C compiler (e.g, gcc), and make to compile cpufetch. To do so, just clone the repo and run make:

git clone https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch
cd cpufetch
make
./cpufetch

The Makefile is designed to work on Linux, Windows and macOS.

2.3 Android

1. Install termux app (terminal emulator)
2. Run pkg install -y git make clang inside termux.
3. Build from source normally:

• git clone https://github.com/Dr-Noob/cpufetch
• cd cpufetch
• make
• ./cpufetch

3. Examples

Here are more examples of how cpufetch looks on different CPUs.

3.1 x86_64 CPUs

3.2 ARM CPUs

4. Colors and style

By default, cpufetch will print the CPU art with the system colorscheme. However, you can always set a custom color scheme, either specifying Intel or AMD, or specifying the colors in RGB format:

./cpufetch --color intel (default color for Intel)
./cpufetch --color amd (default color for AMD)
./cpufetch --color 239,90,45:210,200,200:100,200,45:0,200,200 (example)

In the case of setting the colors using RGB, 4 colors must be given in with the format: [R,G,B:R,G,B:R,G,B:R,G,B]. These colors correspond to CPU art color (2 colors) and for the text colors (following 2). Thus, you can customize all the colors.

5. Implementation

See cpufetch programming documentation.

6. Bugs or improvements

See cpufetch contributing guidelines

7. Acknowledgements

Thanks to the fellow contributors and interested people in the project. Special thanks to:

• Gonzalocl, OdnetninI: Tested cpufetch in the earlier versions of the project in many different CPUs.
• Kyngo: Tested cpufetch in the Apple M1 CPU.
• avollmerhaus: Gave me ssh acess to a PowerPC machine, allowing me to develop the PowerPC port.
• bbonev, stephan-cr: Reviewed the source code.

8. cpufetch for GPUs (gpufetch)

See gpufetch project!