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Printing library for GNOME GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package ...
A general-purpose library-driver for iRiver's iFP portable audio players Libifp is a general-purpose library-driver for iRiver's iFP (flash-based) portable audio players. The source code is pure C and is fairly portable. Also included is a console app that uses the ...
A user and group account administration library The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample ...
Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and ...
Userland logical volume management tools LVM2 includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see ...
Associates helper applications with particular file types The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type ...
A program used for creating device files in /dev This package contains the MAKEDEV program, which makes it easier to create and maintain the files in the /dev directory. /dev directory files correspond to a particular device supported by Linux ...
A set of documentation tools: man, apropos and whatis The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about ...
The mdadm program controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays) The mdadm program is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID) devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools package. However, mdadm is a single program, and ...
Stand-alone memory tester for x86 and x86-64 computers Memtest86+ is a thorough stand-alone memory test for x86 and x86-64 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by ...
Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode. Microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel x86/x86-64 CPU's.
A compact getty program for virtual consoles only The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).
Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ram filesystem (initramfs) images. These images are used to find and mount the root filesystem.
nash shell Nash shell used by initrd.
Ncurses support utilities The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for ...
Descriptions of common terminals This package contains descriptions of common terminals. Other terminal descriptions are included in the ncurses-term package.
Basic networking tools The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.
Network connection manager and user applications NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of ...
NetworkManager VPN integration for OpenVPN This package contains software for integrating the OpenVPN VPN software with NetworkManager and the GNOME desktop.
NetworkManager VPN integration for vpnc This package contains software for integrating the vpnc VPN software with NetworkManager and the GNOME desktop.
Tools for the Network Security Services Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 ...
NSS library and PAM module for LDAP This package includes two LDAP access clients: nss_ldap and pam_ldap. Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X.500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ...
Linux NTFS userspace driver The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, ...
NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities The Linux-NTFS project (http://www.linux-ntfs.org/) aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system. The ntfsprogs package currently consists of a library and ...
A tool to set the stop/start of system services in a runlevel Ntsysv provides a simple interface for setting which system services are started or stopped in various runlevels (instead of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d). Unless ...
Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy and a libnuma to do allocations with NUMA policy in applications.
A security tool which provides authentication for applications PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication.
Pam module to cache login credentials The pam_ccreds module provides a mechanism for caching credentials when authenticating against a network authentication service, so that authentication can still proceed when the service is down. ...
A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5. This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket creation, and optional TGT verification and ...
Pluggable password quality-control module. Pam_passwdqc is a simple password strength checking module for PAM-aware password changing programs, such as passwd(1). In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases ...
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