Inquisitor 3.0 final

Inquisitor is a mature hardware diagnostics, stress testing, certification and monitoring platform, running on GNU/Linux. It's suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and available in standalone version, server-controlled network boot production system and serverless Live CD format.

Inquisitor team is pleased to announce Inquisitor v3.0 — a first major open-source version of the platform. After initial announcement of Inquisitor branch 3.x in August 2007, it's a fruit of almost a year of labor.

Inquisitor version 3 is a major redesign of older 1.x and 2.x systems.

New features:

• Modularity: it consists of dozens of interconnected and interchangeable modules with well-defined API; one can easily add new modules to add new tests, detections, production steps, etc.
• Three varieties: standalone (runs on top of already installed OS), live CD (can be used to analyse/test just one home computer), enterprise (server-controller network boot).
• Flexibility: every test parameter can be adjusted, all system can be customized.
• Server-controlled testing: server-based version includes a database that stores all the data on all computers that were tested by Inquisitor. If only some parts of hardware will change, clever scheduler won't redo all the long testing, but only tests relevant to hardware changes.

For those who would like to try Inquisitor, the easiest way is to download a 130MB ISO, available for both x86 and x86_64 from http://www.inquisitor.ru/.

Comments and especially bug reports are welcome.

http://www.inquisitor.ru/

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4306449/Inquisitor_3.0_LiveCD_(i586).4306449.TPB.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4306453/Inquisitor_3.0_LiveCD_(x86_64).4306453.TPB.torrent

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inq/inq-3.0.tar.bz2