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purefetch: a fastfetch-style system info tool in Rust with zero dependencies
I like neofetch / fastfetch , but I wanted one with a genuinely empty
dependency graph — nothing pulled from crates.io. So I built purefetch : a small
system-info fetcher written entirely in Rust using only std plus raw Linux
syscalls.
Disclosure up front: purefetch was built largely with AI assistance
(Claude Code). I directed the design, and every change was reviewed and tested —
including running it on four architectures under QEMU — but most of the code is
AI-generated...
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