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Utility to patch VBIOS of Intel 855 / 865 / 915 chipsets

A set of SUID mounting tools for use with v9fs.

Wraps binarys that behave abi dependand

accountsservice

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code

access control list utilities, libraries and headers

A perl script to adjust the clock tick of the hardware clock on the system board (should work on most platforms).

Make an initramfs/initrd with root on crypto, lvm, mdadm, etc.

Miscellaneous helpers for AIX (currently just ldd)

anything-sync-daemon

Advanced Power Management Daemon

apply-default-acl

Areca RaidCard CLI tools for amd64 and x86.

Areca RaidCard HTTPd for amd64 and x86.

CLI utility that reports the status of a HP (Compaq) array controller (both IDA & CCISS supported).

A set of miscellaneous utilities written in assembly language, targeted on embedded systems and small distributions

Extended attributes tools

Console Progress Bar

Filesystem baselayout and init scripts

baselayout-java

baselayout-prefix

baselayout-systemd

baselayout-vserver

Filesystem baselayout and init scripts

utility for changing the current real, effective or group id

A script that creates floppy boot images to flash Dell BIOSes

query and/or change settings of a block device

Collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems using initramfs.

Utilities for rescue and embedded systems

busybox-watchdog

build a Linux distribution on a single floppy

calculate-assemble

calculate-builder

calculate-client

The program of setting and storing the user account in the domain

calculate-console

calculate-console-gui

calculate-desktop

calculate-install

The program of installation Calculate Linux

The library for Calculate 2

calculate-server

The program for configuring services Linux

calculate-templates

calculate-update

calculate-utilities

ANSI-C platform independent CANOpen stack

canfestival-objdictgen

canfestival-objdictgen-hg

ANSI-C platform independent CANOpen stack

cciss_vol_status

Shows status of logical drives attached to HP SmartArray controllers.

TOMOYO Linux tools

A simple utility that allows you to easily rename multiple files

SELinux policy compiler

Check the status of services running on local/remote machines

Run a command with a new system hostname.

Manages various PaX related flags for ELF32, ELF64, and a.out binaries.

a fast, small and simple init with support for profiles

Clock randomness gathering daemon

cobalt-panel-utils

LCD and LED panel utilities for the Sun Cobalts

coldplug init.d program to load modules at bootime

light-weight performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk

Remote control for virtual consoles

Funtoo Core Boot Framework for global boot loader configuration

Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities (whoami, who,...)

Linux/390 Interface to z/VM's Control Program

Compaq Arraycontroller Daemon

large set of crack/cracklib dictionaries

Runs a command as a Unix daemon

darwin-miscutils

Miscellaneous commands used on Darwin/Mac OS X systems, Tiger

watchdog to ensure a realtime process won't hang the machine

A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to each other

enhanced dd with features for forensics and security

Utility for managing chroots for non-root users

ddcxinfo-knoppix

Program to automatically probe a monitor for information

ddcxinfo-knoppix-bin

Program to automatically probe a monitor for information

A selection of tools from Debian

udev/devfs workalike, based on Duat

Eventual replacement of HAL

devicekit-disks

Daemon providing interfaces to work with storage devices

devicekit-power

D-Bus abstraction for enumerating power devices and querying history and statistics

Tools to make diffs and compare files

XFS data management API library

DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities

Execute a command when the contents of a directory change

Dog is better than cat

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat and ifstat

Utility to pre-compile Open Firmware device-trees for otherwise device-tree-less devices such as the PS3

Your basic line editor

Userspace helper for Linux kernel EDAC drivers

eINIT - an alternate /sbin/init

eINIT-cfg - the eINIT configuration tool.

einit-modules-scheme

Scheme modules for eINIT

einit-modules-simple

Simple modules for eINIT

Official Sabayon Linux Package Manager library

entropy-client-services

Official Sabayon Linux Package Manager library

Official Sabayon Linux Package Manager Server Interface (tagged release)

Etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, or bzr repository.

Utility for examining and tuning ethernet-based network interfaces

An input event router

This is a firmware uploader for EZ-USB devices

Provide a faked chroot environment without requiring root privileges

Run commands in an environment faking root privileges

A utility to run commands with fake root privileges

A utility to set the framebuffer videomode

Based on the toolchain-funcs eclass

identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns

Utility that reports when files have been altered

Easy to use frontend to find

GNU utilities for finding files

firmware-addon-dell

firmware-extract

Utility for reading, writing, erasing and verifying flash ROM chips

Bépo keymap for the Linux Console

Easy to use filesystem activity monitoring

funtoo-netscripts

Sample network configuration scripts for Funtoo Linux

FireWire CSR Config ROM Viewer

USB firmware uploader

Galago presence daemon

GNU awk pattern-matching language

GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning tool that works on GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks

SCUBA dive logging application, with extendable plugin support

Reads PIR table from memory

glibc-downgrader

Pipe and socket fittings for the system and kernel logs

gnome-disk-utility

Disk Utility for GNOME using devicekit-disks

SabayonLinux Live tool for X.Org video driver configuration

Administrative interface for the grsecurity Role Based Access Control system

GNU regular expression matcher

Text formatter used for man pages

Extension of groff that permits to view UTF-8 encoded man pages

a little bus scanning, testing, and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem

Hardware Abstraction Layer

A daemon built on ivman that executes arbitrary commands on HAL events

hardened-shadow

The Host Bus Adapter API for managing Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

Utility for spinning down hard disks after a period of idle time

Utility to change hard drive performance parameters

GNU utility to convert program --help output to a man page

Eric Raymond's hex dumper

USB and PCI hotplug scripts

Base Hotplug framework

Utility to manage hardware, network, power or other profiles

Hardware Database, including Montitors, pci.ids, usb.ids and video cards

Data for the hwsetup program

Hardware identification and configuration data

hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.

Hardware setup program from Knoppix - used only on LiveCD

I2C Bus kernel modules for linux-2.4.x

I2C tools for bus probing, chip dumping, register-level access helpers, EEPROM decoding scripts, and more

ibm-powerpc-utils

This package provides utilities for the maintainance of the IBM and Apple powerpc platforms.

ibm-powerpc-utils-papr

This package provides the utilities which are intended for the maintenance of IBM powerpc platforms.

userspace tools for the IBM ASM (Advanced Server Management)

GemCore based PC/SC reader drivers for pcsc-lite

Omnikey Cardman 5x2x PC/SC RFID drivers

Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection

tail replacement using inotify

Small collection of linux input layer utils

Utility for controlling IPMI enabled devices.

IPMI Management Utilities

kernel routing and traffic control utilities

Distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a multiprocessor system

Tools for configuring ISA PnP devices

Daemon to mount/unmount devices, based on info from HAL

Launch jackd at bootime with user id and privileges

Keyboard and console utilities

Load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel

keyboard-configuration-helpers

SabayonLinux (Gentoo compatible) keymap configuration tool

Starts other program using the password of the user kept in the kernel

Utility for manipulating the scancode/keycode translation tables of keyboard drivers

Linux Key Management Utilities

Rebootless Linux kernel security updates

Red Hat Hardware detection tools

Monitors the Kurobox and LinkStation power and reset buttons.

The Kyuba Init Daemons

language-configuration-helpers

SabayonLinux (Gentoo compatible) Locale configuration tool

splash Gentoo boot information on LCD's

Displays test patterns to spot dead/hot pixels on LCD screens

Cobalt RaQ/Qube LCD Writing and Button reading utilities

Excellent text file viewer

Excellent text file viewer, patched with additional selection feature

linux-misc-apps

Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) Utilities

Hardware Monitoring user-space utilities

lm_sensors-modules

Hardware Monitoring kernel modules for linux-2.4.x

Analyzes and Reports on system logs

Lomoco can configure vendor-specific options on Logitech USB mice.

Prints out information on all devices attached to the ADB bus

LSB version query program

Hardware Lister

Like lspci but for PARISC devices

Small utility for Linux/SPARC that list devices on SBUS

Linux Diagnostics Tools

maemo-flasher35

Official Sabayon Linux Entropy Notification Applet Core library

program used for creating device files in /dev

MAKEDEV from baselayout-1

Standard commands to read man pages

man-db, the on-line manual database

A somewhat comprehensive collection of Linux man pages

man-pages-posix

POSIX man-pages (0p, 1p, 3p)

an (often faster than gawk) awk-interpreter

Framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems

A stand alone memory test for x86 computers

Memory tester based on memtest86

userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults

Tool to store the metadata of files,directories,links in a file tree

Intel processor microcode update utility

Intel IA32 microcode update data

a smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation

Miscellaneous files

Tools for creating initrd images

Merging locate is an utility to index and quickly search for files

module-init-tools

tools for managing linux kernel modules

Standard kernel module utilities for linux-2.4 and older

Primitive text file viewer

a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write thirty years ago

a paging program that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file.

Emulates scrollwheel, right- & left-click for one-button mice/touchpads

check the permissions of a file system against a spec file

Console keymap modifier for Nokia N810

Meta-package bringing minimal needed software to operate on Nokia N8x0 tablets

Network Console on Acid

Standard Linux networking tools

Baselayout for netboot systems

Old-style inetd

Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection

neuvoo-crossdev-tools

Neuvoo crossdev tools.

neuvoo-system-tools

Neuvoo system tools.

newrelic-sysmond

nit-bootmenu-compat

Based on the eutils eclass

A purely functional package manager

a package for preventing processes from using exec system calls

nvramtool is a utility for reading/writing/displaying LinuxBIOS parameters.

omnikey-pcsc-syncapi

Omnikey PC/SC Sync-API for Contactless Smartcards

Based on the eutils eclass

OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

OptimizationKit

Tools package for optimize your system

paludis, the other package mangler

Create, destroy, resize, check, copy partitions and file systems

Manages various PaX related program header flags for Elf32, Elf64, binaries.

driver for the parallel port radio clock sold by Conrad Electronic

Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus

PCMCIA tools for Linux

PCMCIA CIS files for use with pcmciautils

pcmcia-cs-modules

PCMCIA modules for Linux 2.4.x

pcmcia-cs-pnptools

PCMCIA PNP tools for Linux

PCMCIA userspace utilities for Linux kernel 2.6.13 and beyond

A framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management

PC/SC Architecture smartcard middleware library

pcsc-slb-rf72-drv

Schlumberger Reflex 72 Serial Smartcard Reader

PC/SC Architecture smartcard tools

pentoo-etc-portage

pkgcore package manager

Policy based mounter that gives the ability to mount removable devices as a user

policycoreutils

SELinux core utilities

Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo

PowerPC utilities including nvsetenv, and additional OldWorld apps

Tool to query and modify process behavior

prefix-chain-utils

Adaptive readahead daemon.

Pipe Viewer: a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipe

Mass rename files

Allows to send commands to some microcontrollers, for example to change leds or sound a buzzer

Qt4 Graphical Disk Usage Analyzer

a DirectFB getty replacement

Quickstart automated installer

Utilities to manage i2o/dtp RAID controllers.

Preloads files into the page cache to accelerate program loading.

readahead-royale

File corruption detection and repair program

remote-login-service

Renames multiple files

tool for easily renaming files

Use your favorite text editor to rename files

rescan-scsi-bus

Script to rescan the SCSI bus without rebooting

A daemon for checking your running and not running processes

Daemon to use hardware random number generators.

Object-code only (OCO) modules for s390

A set of user space utilities that should be used together with the zSeries (s390) Linux kernel and device drivers

safe-browsing-helpers

SabayonLinux (Gentoo compatbile) Tor/Privoxy configuration tool

sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack

sblim-cmpi-base

sblim-cmpi-fsvol

A fast and enhanced 'dd' replacement for UNIX

Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI device, like hdparm

Super-useful stream editor

Provides utilities for logging service-related events

setroubleshoot-plugins

Configure your serial ports with it

Apps for querying the sg SCSI interface

Utilities to deal with user accounts

HiPath SIcurity Card API

Secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system (drop-in replacement for 'locate')

control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.)

Various sparc utilities from Debian GNU/Linux

CELL spu ps and top alike utilities

squashed-portage

squashfs-portage

A command-line stat() wrapper

Utility for detection of SuperIO chips

Dynamic swap manager for linux

Program that displays information about your hardware

Notifications for syslog entries via libnotify

systemd-sysv-utils

/sbin/init - parent of all processes

Sysvinit without /sbin/init (usefull with runit)

the_silver_searcher

A timer-based entropy generator

TOMOYO Linux tools

drop-in replacement for 'tail' which uses the kernel DNOTIFY-api

tuxonice-userui

User Interface for TuxOnIce

Simple udev-based automounter for removable USB media

A proxy program for two connections set up by a UCSPI server and a UCSPI client.

Command-line tools for building SSL client-server applications.

Collection of tools for managing UNIX services

A ucspi implementation for unix sockets

udev-usb-automount

Universal Hardware Inventory Tool, uhinv displays operating system and hardware info

Advanced file copying tool

simple & stable nscd replacement

Event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon.

Userland for USB monitoring framework

USB enumeration utilities

USB_ModeSwitch is a tool for controlling 'flip flop' (multiple devices) USB gear like UMTS sticks.

user-session-units

usermode-utilities

Tools for use with Usermode Linux virtual machines

App that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp (login) info

Various useful Linux utilities

A daemon to run x86 code in an emulated environment.

Run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state (i.e. reinitialize video card)

A software watchdog

Prints out location of specified executables that are in your path

Dave Jones' handy, informative x86 CPU diagnostic utility

powerful replacement for inetd

Mother Board Monitor Program for X Window System

xorg-launch-helper

automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems

This ebuild should NEVER be installed, ever, for any reason

File corruption detection and repair program

Zorro bus utility for Amigas running 2.1 and later kernels