Category: System / Applications
Various core system applications, and some non-core system applications which have not yet been moved out into other sys- categories.
Packages
- Acl
- Access control list utilities, libraries and headers
- Attr
- Extended attributes tools
- Baselayout
- Filesystem baselayout and init scripts
- Busybox
- Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
- Coreutils
- Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities (whoami, who,...)
- Debianutils
- A selection of tools from Debian
- Diffutils
- Tools to make diffs and compare files
- Ed
- Your basic line editor
- File
- identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns
- Findutils
- GNU utilities for finding files
- Gawk
- GNU awk pattern-matching language
- Grep
- GNU regular expression matcher
- Groff
- Text formatter used for man pages
- Help2man
- GNU utility to convert program --help output to a man page
- Kbd
- Keyboard and console utilities
- Less
- Excellent text file viewer
- Man
- Standard commands to read man pages
- Man Pages
- A somewhat comprehensive collection of Linux man pages
- Man Pages Posix
- POSIX man-pages (0p, 1p, 3p)
- Module Init Tools
- tools for managing linux kernel modules
- Net Tools
- Standard Linux networking tools
- Portage
- Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo
- Sandbox
- sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack
- Sed
- Super-useful stream editor
- Shadow
- Utilities to deal with user accounts
- Slocate
- Secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system (drop-in replacement for 'locate')
- Sysvinit
- /sbin/init - parent of all processes
- TCP Wrappers
- TCP Wrappers
- Texinfo
- The GNU info program and utilities
- Util Linux
- Various useful Linux utilities
- Which
- Prints out location of specified executables that are in your path