Inquisitor is a software suite used for hardware diagnostics, stress testing, certification and benchmarking platform.

It is available in three formats: Released under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, Inquisitor is free software.

Inquisitor started in early 2004 as a closed project developed by Mikhail Yakshin at ALT Linux for MaxSelect, a Russian hardware vendor.

These Live CDs were supplied with MaxSelect products, so every buyer can stress test their newly bought hardware to ensure it runs stable.

This platform can be used to implement various Linux-based solutions that deal with hardware testing, monitoring and benchmarking.