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accountsservice

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

access control list utilities, libraries and headers

Advanced Power Management Daemon

apply-default-acl

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

asahi-nvram-meta

asahi-startup-disk

asus-touchpad-numpad-driver

Extended attributes tools

Console Progress Bar

Filesystem baselayout and init scripts

baselayout-java

A script that creates floppy boot images to flash Dell BIOSes

Utilities for rescue and embedded systems

build a Linux distribution on a single floppy

cciss_vol_status

Shows status of logical drives attached to HP SmartArray controllers.

TOMOYO Linux tools

SELinux policy compiler

Run a command with a new system hostname.

a fast, small and simple init with support for profiles

Clock randomness gathering daemon

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

Remote control for virtual consoles

coolercontrol-liqctld

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

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

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

A selection of tools from Debian

Tools to make diffs and compare files

dm9pZCAq-coreutils

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

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

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

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

GNU utilities for finding files

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

USB firmware uploader

GNU awk pattern-matching language

gentoo-functions

gentoo-systemd-integration

gnome-disk-utility

Disk Utility for GNOME using devicekit-disks

Administrative interface for the grsecurity Role Based Access Control system

GNU regular expression matcher

Text formatter used for man pages

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

hardenedtmpfiles

Utility to change hard drive performance parameters

heirloom-devtools

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

Utility to manage hardware, network, power or other profiles

hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.

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.

GemCore based PC/SC reader drivers for pcsc-lite

Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection

init-system-helpers

Small collection of linux input layer utils

intel-sa-00075-tools

ipmi-fan-control

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

Keyboard and console utilities

Load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel

Linux Key Management Utilities

kylemanna-systemd-utils

splash Gentoo boot information on LCD's

Cobalt RaQ/Qube LCD Writing and Button reading utilities

Excellent text file viewer

linux-misc-apps

Hardware Monitoring user-space utilities

Analyzes and Reports on system logs

Prints out information on all devices attached to the ADB bus

LSB version query program

Hardware Lister

Small utility for Linux/SPARC that list devices on SBUS

Official Sabayon Linux Entropy Notification Applet Core library

program used for creating device files in /dev

Standard commands to read man pages

man-db, the on-line manual database

A somewhat comprehensive collection of Linux man pages

man-pages-fortran

man-pages-linux-kernel-api

man-pages-posix

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

an (often faster than gawk) awk-interpreter

Memory tester based on memtest86

userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults

a smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation

Miscellaneous files

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

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.

myov-mainstation-meta

Standard Linux networking tools

Old-style inetd

Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection

newrelic-sysmond

a package for preventing processes from using exec system calls

openrazer-driver

OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

osinfo-db-tools

pacman-mirrorlist

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

Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus

PCMCIA userspace utilities for Linux kernel 2.6.13 and beyond

PC/SC Architecture smartcard middleware library

pcsc-slb-rf72-drv

Schlumberger Reflex 72 Serial Smartcard Reader

PC/SC Architecture smartcard tools

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

Adaptive readahead daemon.

ps3-gentoo-installer

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

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

a DirectFB getty replacement

racket-compiler

Preloads files into the page cache to accelerate program loading.

tool for easily renaming files

Use your favorite text editor to rename files

A daemon for checking your running and not running processes

rindeal-base-system-settings

Daemon to use hardware random number generators.

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

s6-portable-utils

sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack

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

Super-useful stream editor

Provides utilities for logging service-related events

Configure your serial ports with it

Apps for querying the sg SCSI interface

Utilities to deal with user accounts

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

Program that displays information about your hardware

Notifications for syslog entries via libnotify

system-monitoring-center

system76-driver

systemd-amavisd-milter

systemd-bootchart

systemd-custom-timer

systemd-dovecot-timer

systemd-pure-ftpd

systemd-readahead

systemd-sysv-utils

systemd-tmpfiles-openrc

/sbin/init - parent of all processes

tail-follow-grep

the_silver_searcher

thunderbolt-software-user-space

TOMOYO Linux tools

Simple udev-based automounter for removable USB media

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

Collection of tools for managing UNIX services

A ucspi implementation for unix sockets

simple & stable nscd replacement

Userland for USB monitoring framework

USB enumeration utilities

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

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

uutils-coreutils

uutils-findutils

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

xdg-desktop-portal

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

xdg-desktop-portal-pantheon

xdg-desktop-portal-xapp

powerful replacement for inetd

Mother Board Monitor Program for X Window System

Zorro bus utility for Amigas running 2.1 and later kernels