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| acl | 2.2.22 | GPL | Command for manipulating access control lists | This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. |
| adjtimex | 1.13 | GPL | A utility for adjusting kernel time variables | Adjtimex is a kernel clock management program, which the superuser may use to correct any drift in the system's clock. Users can use adjtimex to view the time variables. |
| arptables | 0.0.3 | GPL | Userspace control program for the arptables network filter | The arptables utility controls the arpfilter network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel. You do not need this program for normal network firewalling. If you need to manually control which arp requests and/or replies this machine accepts and sends, you should install this package. |
| ati_remote | 2.1.1 | GPL | ATI USB Remote Control driver | ATI USB Remote Control driver This is an experimental driver.. who knows what it'll do ? Please read the README before using |
| attr | 2.4.14 | GPL | Utility for managing filesystem extended attributes. | A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name. |
| autofs | 4.0.0 | GPL | A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems. | Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when you use them and unmount them after a period of inactivity. Filesystems can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies and others. Install this package if you want a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems. If your Linux machine is on a network, you should install autofs. |
| autosmb | 1.1 | GPL | Automounter script for autods | This is an automounter helper script for autofs. Add this to /etc/auto.master /cifs /etc/auto.smb --timeout=60 and edit /etc/auto.smb.conf with credentials. The credemntials file should be of the form username=NTDOMAINUSERNAME password=PASSWORD |
| awesfx | 0.5.0 | GPL | Utility programs for the AWE32 sound driver | The awesfx package contains necessary utilities for the AWE32 sound driver. If you must use an AWE32 sound driver, you should install this package. |
| bdflush | 1.5 | Public Domain | The process which starts the flushing of dirty buffers back to disk. | The bdflush process starts the kernel daemon which flushes dirty buffers back to disk (i.e., writes all unwritten data to disk). This helps to prevent the buffers from growing too stale. Bdflush is a basic system process that must run for your system to operate properly. |
| bfr | 1.5 | GPL | General-purpose command-line pipe buffer | Buffer is a general-purpose command-line pipe buffer. It buffers data from stdin and sends it to stdout, adjusting to best fit the pace stdout can handle. It can solve problems on either end of a pipe. For instance, if the incoming stream is slower than outgoing, performance is mainly dependent on the "start-stream threshold" you set. This can be used to group data into larger packets to, for an example, reduce seeking on a tape drive. In the case of the outgoing being slower, the "stop-stream threshold" prevents unnecessary CPU from being taken up by reading single-bytes and such (if the output stream accepts data one byte at a time, for instance), and will output-only until the buffer goes down to 97% or so. This speeds up certain procedures, such as creating a tar file, gzipping it, and putting it through a program such as "netcat". It boosts performance by allowing a certain level of detachment between the two... allowing tar and (especially) gzip to do its work at the same time the network is doing its work, so you're not sending one packet and THEN seeing gzip kick in to create the next. The Buffer distribution also contains a varient of buffer named Bufplay (bfp). Bufplay's purpose is to do the same sort of buffering as Buffer, but it is intended for use with OSS, configuring /dev/dsp for the type of sound data you specify and playing it. If, for some reason, you want to be cool like me and have 60 megs of RAM inbetween mpg123 and your sound card, you can. =) |
| bioswriter | 0.2 | BSD | Read/write tool for CMOS data | This program can read all or part of the CMOS data from the BIOS and store it in a file. It can also restore CMOS data previously saved in such a file. |
| bonnie++ | 1.02c | GPL | A program for benchmarking hard drives and filesystems | Bonnie++ is a benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance. |
| bootloader-utils | 1.6 | GPL | Small utils needed for the kernel | Utils needed to install/remove a kernel. Also for updating bootloaders. |
| bootsplash | 2.1.5 | GPL | The Boot Splash Images and scripts | This package contains the scripts and pictures visible when booting a Mandrake kernel. They are automatically installed when an initrd is generated by mkinitrd. |
| bootsplash-themes | 2.0.0 | GPL | Bootsplash themes | Additional themes for bootsplash: - Linux - Radiant Star - Enterprise - Enterprise-spot - Ayo - Ayo-73labAllstar - Ayo-ElvinTooka - Ayo-FrozenBubble - Ayo-Misspingus3 - Ayo-Misspingus4 "-tux" themes use Tux logo instead of theme picture in console |
| chos | 0.84 | GPL | Chos - an alternative boot manager. | ChOS is an alternative boot manager - it lets you select which operating system to use at bootup. |
| convertfs | 0.20020318 | GPL | ConvertFS - convert one file system to another | ConvertFS is a very simple but extremely powerful toolset which allows users to convert one file system to another. It works for converting virtually any filesystem type to virtually any one as long as they are both block-oriented and supported by Linux for read/write, and as long as primary filesystem supports sparse files. * devclone - Utility to make clone of the block device (sparse file of the same size). * devremap - Core of the toolset - block relocation utility. * prepindex - Utility to prepare index (list of raw blocks) of filesystem image. |
| cpudyn | 0.6.1 | GPL | A tools to control CPU frequency | This program control the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. Tested with 2.4, Pentium 3 Speedstep Laptop (Dell Latitude), Pentium 4 Mobile Laptop (Dell Inspiron), AMD Power Now, Apple iBook, IBM Thinkpad. cpudyn is just a user space program, so it will work on every processor suppoted by the kernel's cpufreq driver |
| cpufreqd | 1.1.2 | GPL | CPU frequency scaling daemon | cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can find on some other OS, it monitors battery level, AC state and running programs and adjusts the frequency of the processor according to a set of rules specified in the config file (see cpufreqd.conf (5)). It works only a kernel patched with the cpufreq patch, such as the standard MandrakeLinux kernel. You also need a supported processor, often found in laptop computer. |
| ctcs | 1.3.0 | GPL | VA Cerberus Test Control System -- DO NOT INSTALL ON LIVE SYSTEMS | This is the VA Linux burnin test suite, known to mere mortals as Cerberus. It's used to make sure that new systems are ready to go out and face the perils of the cold, hard world. It's made up of a suite of programs that literally pound the system *NOTE* It's very easy to destroy your system with this software. DO NOT INSTALL AND RUN ON A PRODUCTION SYSTEM. Please, for the love of Pete, I'm dead serious about this folks. The tests are meant for hardware with nothing on it yet... you will lose data. Not might. Will. Please be sure to read the README's that in the top level of the install directory. Please also visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs for more information. |
| detok | 0.5.2 | GPL | The OpenBIOS detokenizer | detok is a GPLed FCode detokenizer. It can detokenize (disassemble) fcode bytecode files as described by the IEEE 1275-1994 standard. This program aims towards IEEE 1275-1994 compliancy, but there is no warranty that it is actually compliant. bytecode files normally contain Open Firmware drivers or other packages for use with an Open Firmware compliant system. |
| devbios | 0.3.2 | GPL | The OpenBIOS (Flash)BIOSs kernel driver | This is a kernel driver for different kinds of (Flash)BIOSs that are available in today's hardware. |
| devfsd | 1.3.25 | GPL | Daemon for providing old entries in /dev with devfs | The devfsd programme is a daemon, run by the system boot scripts which can provide for intelligent management of device entries in the Device Filesystem (devfs). As part of its setup phase devfsd creates certain symbolic links which are compiled into the code. These links are required by /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. This behaviour may change in future revisions. devfsd will read the special control file .devfsd in a mounted devfs, listening for the creation and removal of device entries (this is termed a change operation). For each change operation, devfsd can take many actions. The daemon will normally run itself in the background and send messages to syslog. The opening of the syslog service is automatically delayed until /dev/log is created. At startup, before switching to daemon mode, devfsd will scan the mounted device tree and will generate synthetic REGISTER events for each leaf node. |
| dmidecode | 2.3 | GPL | Tool for dumping a computer's DMI table contents | Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Part of its code can be found in the Linux kernel, because DMI data may be used to enable or disable specific portions of code depending on the hardware vendor. Thus, dmidecode is mainly used to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source code when needed. |
| dmsetup | 1.00.07 | GPL | Device mapper setup tool | The goal of this driver is to support volume management. The driver enables the definition of new block devices composed of ranges of sectors of existing devices. This can be used to define disk partitions - or logical volumes. This light-weight kernel component can support user-space tools for logical volume management. |
| drakopt | 1.01 | GPL | Tool for optimizing IDE drives and detecting some types of problems | DrakOPT is a program to read and test IDE drives |
| e2fsprogs | 1.34 | GPL | Utilities used for the second extended (ext2) filesystem. | The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters) and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities. You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2 filesystem. |
| eagle-usb | 1.9.5 | GPL | Firmware and utility of Sagem Fast 800 usb modem kernel module. | Firmware and utility for the Sagem Fast 800 usb modem |
| ebtables | 2.0.6 | GPL | A filtering tool for a bridging firewall | The ebtables program is a filtering tool for a bridging firewall. The filtering is focussed on the Link Layer Ethernet frame fields. Apart from filtering, it also gives the ability to alter the Ethernet MAC addresses and implement a brouter. |
| eject | 2.0.13 | GPL | A program that ejects removable media using software control. | The eject program allows the user to eject removable media (typically CD-ROMs, floppy disks or Iomega Jaz or Zip disks) using software control. Eject can also control some multi- disk CD changers and even some devices' auto-eject features. Install eject if you'd like to eject removable media using software control. |
| em8300 | 0.13.0 | GPL | Utilities for Hollywood plus / DXR3 device driver for Linux | This package contains utilities that can be used by packages developed for use with the Hollywood plus or DXR3 MPEG decoder cards. For futher info. see http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/ |
| ext2ed | 0.1 | GPL | An ext2 filesystem editor. | Ext2ed is a program which provides a text and window interface for examining and editing an ext2 filesystem. Ext2ed is supposed to be easier to use than debugfs, but debugfs is more powerful. Note that this program should only be used by someone who is very experienced at hacking filesystems. Install ext2ed if you want to examine and/or edit your ext2 filesystem, and you know what you're doing. |
| ext2resize | 1.1.17 | GPL | Ext2 fs resizer. | ext2resize enable to enlarge or reduce a ext2 fs. WARNING: this is BETA software. You may lost data. You have been warned Save them before using ext2resize WARNING: you should probably use resize2fs from e2fsprogs which is more robust. |
| extipl | 5.04 | GPL | Yet Another Boot Selector for IBM-PC compatibles. | Extended-IPL is a boot selector which is upper compatible with original IBM IPL. This package includes the installer for this boot code which is written into MBR of your hard disk. With this boot selector, you can select a partition from all the partitions including the logical partitions as well as the primary ones in all the BIOS supported disks when booting a PC, and then it will boot up the OS reside at the selected partition. |
| ezusbmidi | 2002_10_20 | GPL | Firmware drivers for EZUSB MIDI devices | This program is an USB-MIDI compliant firmware for the EZUSB chip (AN2131SC) developed to make an USB-MIDI adapter to run with Linux. It runs with these USB-MIDI devices: - Midiman Midisport 1x1 - Midiman Midisport 2x2 - Midiman Midisport UNO - Steinberg USB-2-MIDI Author: Lars Doelle <lars.doelle@on-line.de> |
| fb2png | 0.1 | GPL | Take screenshots from the framebuffer | Utility to make screenshots from framebuffer |
| fbset | 2.1 | GPL | Framebuffer utilities for changing video modes. | fbset is a utility for querying and changing video modes of fbcon consoles. |
| fdutils | 5.4 | GPL | Programs for dealing with floppy disks | This package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a high density disk), for sending raw commands to the floppy controller, etc. NOTE: This package contains files which supercede corresponding versions in the man-pages and util-linux packages. Therefore, the --replacefiles (or --force) option to rpm may be needed to install this package. |
| feval | 0.2.6 | GPL | The OpenBIOS fcode evaluator | feval is a GPLed FCode evaluator. It can evaluate (execute) fcode bytecode files as described by the IEEE 1275-1994 standard. This program aims towards IEEE 1275-1994 compliancy, but there is no warranty that it is actually compliant. bytecode files normally contain Open Firmware drivers or other packages for use with an Open Firmware compliant system. In general, feval is working similar to a Java Virtual Machine. |
| fxload | 2002_04_11 | GPL | EZ-USB utility program | This package contains utilities for downloading firmware to EZ-USB devices. EZ-USB devices use 8051-based microcontrollers that have been enhanced with registers, buffers, and other device-side support for USB transactions. It currently supports devices based on the Anchorchips EZ-USB, as well as the Cypress EZ-USB FX (which is almost completely source compatible) and EZ-USB FX2 (which is not). All of these support full speed (12 Mbit/sec) transfers. The FX2 also supports high speed (480 Mbit/s) transfers, introduced in USB 2.0. This version of FXLOAD supports optional use of two-stage loading, where special device firmware is used to support writing into off-chip memory such as RAM (when firmware neeeds more than about 8 KBytes of code and data) or, for firmware development, I2C serial EEPROM. |
| genromfs | 0.5.1 | GPL | Tool for creating romfs filesystems. | Genromfs is a tool for creating romfs filesystems, which are lightweight, read-only filesystems supported by the Linux kernel. |
| gnubeep | 0.8 | GPL | Produce sound trough the speaker | gnubeep is a simple program written in C to generate `beeps` by programming the system's internal PIT (programmable interrupt timer) directly via the I/O ports. I have so many times needed to generate custom tones in shell scripts and programs, and when 'a' doesn't suffice, this can be a problem which requires overcoming. For this reason, I decided to write gnubeep. One of the prime reasons I saw fit to release this piece of software was to serve as an example of how to program the PIT for sound in Linux. Note: you need to be root to run it or change permission yourself by running chmod +s /usr/bin/gnubeep |
| gpart | 0.1h | GPL | Hard disk primary partition table reconstruction. | A tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: DOS/Windows FAT, Linux ext2 and swap, OS/2 HPFS, Windows NTFS, FreeBSD and Solaris/x86 disklabels, Minix FS, QNX 4 FS, Reiser FS, LVM physical volumes, BeOS FS, SGI XFS. |
| grub | 0.93 | GPL | GRand Unified Bootloader | GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify bootloading across x86 operating systems. In addition to loading the Linux and *BSD kernels, it implements the Multiboot standard, which allows for flexible loading of multiple boot images (needed for modular kernels such as the GNU Hurd). |
| gscanbus | 0.7.1 | GPL | A tool to scan IEEE1394 (firewire/i.link) bus | gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, with some AV/C support, especially for controlling Camcorders and VCRs. It is intended as a debugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used to simply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linux. |
| hdparm | 5.5 | BSD | A utility for displaying and/or setting hard disk parameters. | Hdparm is a useful system utility for setting (E)IDE hard drive parameters. For example, hdparm can be used to tweak hard drive performance and to spin down hard drives for power conservation. |
| hotkeys | 0.5.7.1 | GPL | A program to use the special keys on internet/multimedia keyboards | The HotKeys daemon listens for the "special" hotkeys that you won't normally use on your Internet/Multimedia keyboards. The buttons perform their intended behaviors, such as volume up and down, mute the speaker, or launch applications. It has On-screen display (OSD) to show the volume, program that's being started, etc. It features an XML-based keycode configuration file format, which makes it possible to define the hotkeys to launch any programs you want. |
| imwheel | 0.9.9 | GPL | A utility to make wheel mice work under X | This is imwheel, it's a program to use that good ole Microsoft IntelliMouse Wheel under X11 on Linux. It can be used both with XFree86 and with closed-source commercial X-servers (for example those made by MetroLink or Xi Graphics). |
| ipchains | 1.3.10 | GPL | IP Firewalling Chains. | Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to (and hopefully an improvement upon) the normal Linux Firewalling code, for 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. It lets you do things like firewalls, IP masquerading, etc. Kernel 2.4 is also supported, but if you have kernel 2.4, you are highly recommended to use the netfilter system instead. You can have both userspace tools installed, but only one system can be used at any one time. If you decide to use the netfilter system, then you probably don't need this. |
| iptables | 1.2.9 | GPL | Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities | iptables controls the Linux kernel network packet filtering code. It allows you to set up firewalls and IP masquerading, etc. Install iptables if you need to set up firewalling for your network. Install this only if you are using the 2.4 or 2.6 kernels!! |
| iptables-ipv6 | 1.2.9 | GPL | IPv6 support for iptables | IPv6 support for iptables. iptables controls the Linux kernel network packet filtering code. It allows you to set up firewalls and IP masquerading, etc. IPv6 is the next version of the IP protocol. Install iptables-ipv6 if you need to set up firewalling for your network and you're using ipv6. |
| ipvsadm | 1.24 | GPL | Administration tool for Linux Virtual Server | ipvsadm is a utility to administer the IP virtual server services offered by the Linux kernel with virtual server patch. Virtual Server in Linux kernel can be used to build a high-performance and highly available server. |
| irqbalance | 0.06 | Open Software License | Daemon to balance irq's across multiple CPUs. | Daemon to balance irq's across multiple CPUs on systems with the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. Only useful on SMP systems. |
| isdn4net | 1.4.6 | GPL | Networking with the isdn subsystem | This package provides several scripts to do networking with isdn4linux, several sample configurations for card and ippp setup and small configuration and admin utility. |
| isdn-light | 0.8 | GPL | Networking with the isdn subsystem, light version | This package provides the minimal scripts to do networking with isdn4linux. It is simple, clean and tiny. Ideal for small configuration. |
| jfsprogs | 1.1.4 | GPL | IBM JFS utility programs | IBM's journaled file system technology, currently used in IBM enterprise servers, is designed for high-throughput server environments, key to running intranet and other high-performance e-business file servers. IBM is contributing this technology to the Linux open source community with the hope that some or all of it will be useful in bringing the best of journaling capabilities to the Linux operating system. |
| joystick | 1.2.15 | GPL | Joystick utilities | Three utilities for joystick kernel drivers. See man for jstest, jscal, and jsattach. |
| kernel22-smp | 2.2.20 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for SMP machines. | This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.2.20 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. |
| kernel-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrake Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel2.4-marcelo | 2.4.25 | GPL | The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrake Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. |
| kernel24-tmb-2.4.25-2.tmb.1mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrake Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php !! The tmb kernels is an experimental kernel based on the mdk kernels, with added patches. Some of them may/will never end up in the main mdk kernels due to their experimental nature. Some refer to this kernel as a 'hackkernel' ... Use these kernels at your own risk !! |
| kernel24-tmb-enterprise-2.4.25-2.tmb.1mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for Enterprise server usage. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations and other appropriate items. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php !! The tmb kernels is an experimental kernel based on the mdk kernels, with added patches. Some of them may/will never end up in the main mdk kernels due to their experimental nature. Some refer to this kernel as a 'hackkernel' ... Use these kernels at your own risk !! |
| kernel-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrake Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-alert | 0.8 | Artistic | Alerts you by e-mail when new kernels are released. | A perl script that will e-mail you when new Linux kernels are released, and optionally attach the patch to the e-mail and/or run a script of your choosing. Useful for those of you who live for new kernels (you know who you are :-) |
| kernel-BOOT-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The version of the Linux kernel used on installation boot disks. | This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux kernel. This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are turned off because of the size constraints. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-BOOT-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The version of the Linux kernel used on installation boot disks. | This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux kernel. This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are turned off because of the size constraints. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-enterprise-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for Enterprise server usage. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations and other appropriate items. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-enterprise-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for Enterprise server usage. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations and other appropriate items. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for smp with 4GB. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical desktop with more than 1GB of memory. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for smp with 4GB. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical desktop with more than 1GB of memory. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-linus2.2 | 2.2.25 | GPL | The Linux kernel without patch (the real core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrake Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. This version of kernel is a version without any patch just the kernel like linus out of the press. |
| kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.21mm.2mdk | 1 | GPL | A preemptible Linux kernel, which reduces the latency of the kernel. | This kernel includes patches useful for multmedia purposes like: preemption, low-latency and the ability for processes to transfer their capabilities. In addition the O(1) scheduler from Ingo Molnar is included. The preemtion patches allow a task to be preempted anywhere within the kernel, using spinlocks as markers for non-preemptibility regions. The resulting system response is greatly increased, with measured average latencies under 1ms. Andrew Morton's low-latency patches fix the remaining points in the kernel that cause latency. The setpcap patch allows processes with root rights to transfer capabilities to non-root processes, and so making it possible for user processes to run with realtime priority. |
| kernel-multimedia-smp-2.4.22.21mm.2mdk | 1 | GPL | A multiprocessor version of a preemptive, low-latency kernel | This package includes a SMP version of the multimedia-kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. This kernel includes patches useful for multmedia purposes like: preemption, low-latency, an O(1) scheduler and the ability for processes with root rights to transfer capabilities to non-root processes. |
| kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for pentium III, smp and 64GB memory. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations (64GB) and support for pentium III. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for pentium III, smp and 64GB memory. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations (64GB) and support for pentium III. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-secure-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for SECURE machines. | This package includes a SECURE version of the Linux 2.6.3 kernel. This package add options for kernel that make it more secure for servers and such. See : http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ for list of features we have included. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-smp-2.4.25.2mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for SMP machines. | This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.4.25 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-smp-2.6.3.7mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for SMP machines. | This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.6.3 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php |
| kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.5mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system). | The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Mandrakelinux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php !! The tmb kernels is an experimental kernel based on the mdk kernels, with added patches. Some of them may/will never end up in the main mdk kernels due to their experimental nature. Some refer to this kernel as a 'hackkernel' ... Use these kernels at your own risk !! |
| kernel-tmb-enterprise-2.6.4-1.tmb.5mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled with options for Enterprise server usage. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations and other appropriate items. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php !! The tmb kernels is an experimental kernel based on the mdk kernels, with added patches. Some of them may/will never end up in the main mdk kernels due to their experimental nature. Some refer to this kernel as a 'hackkernel' ... Use these kernels at your own risk !! |
| kernel-tmb-i686-up-4GB-2.6.4-1.tmb.5mdk | 1 | GPL | The Linux Kernel compiled for smp with 4GB. | This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical desktop with more than 1GB of memory. For instructions for update, see: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php !! The tmb kernels is an experimental kernel based on the mdk kernels, with added patches. Some of them may/will never end up in the main mdk kernels due to their experimental nature. Some refer to this kernel as a 'hackkernel' ... Use these kernels at your own risk !! |
| ksymoops | 2.4.9 | GPL | Kernel oops and error message decoder | The Linux kernel produces error messages that contain machine specific numbers which are meaningless for debugging. ksymoops reads machine specific files and the error log and converts the addresses to meaningful symbols and offsets. |
| libcap1 | 1.10 | BSD/GPL | Library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities | libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities. NOTE: The Mandrake kernel does not permit capabilities by default. |
| libcap-utils | 1.10 | BSD/GPL | Administration tools for POSIX.1e capabilities | libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities. This package contains utilities to control these capabilities. NOTE: The Mandrake kernel does not permit capabilities by default. |
| libcpufreqd | 1.1.2 | GPL | Library for cpufreqd | This packages contains some library needed by cpufreqd. |
| libdevmapper1.00 | 1.00.07 | GPL | Device mapper library | The goal of this driver is to support volume management. The driver enables the definition of new block devices composed of ranges of sectors of existing devices. This can be used to define disk partitions - or logical volumes. This light-weight kernel component can support user-space tools for logical volume management. |
| libsane1 | 1.0.13 | LGPL | SANE - local and remote scanner access. This package contains the sane library. | SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is a sane and simple interface to both local and networked scanners and other image acquisition devices like digital still and video cameras. SANE currently includes modules for accessing a range of scanners, including models from Agfa SnapScan, Apple, Artec, Canon, CoolScan, Epson, HP, Microtek, Mustek, Nikon, Siemens, Tamarack, UMAX, Connectix, QuickCams and other SANE devices via network. For the latest information on SANE, the SANE standard definition, and mailing list access, see http://www.mostang.com/sane/ This package does not enable network scanning by default; if you wish to enable it, install the saned package. |
| libselinux-utils | 1.4 | Public Domain | Utilities for libselinux | This package contains numerous applications utilizing libselinux. |
| lilo | 22.5.8 | MIT | The boot loader for Linux and other operating systems. | LILO (LInux LOader) is a basic system program which boots your Linux system. LILO loads the Linux kernel from a floppy or a hard drive, boots the kernel and passes control of the system to the kernel. LILO can also boot other operating systems. |
| lilo-doc | 22.5.8 | MIT | More doc for lilo | cf lilo package |
| lirc | 0.6.6 | GPL | Linux Infrared Remote Control daemons | LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. Configuration files for many remotes are locate in lirc-remotes package |
| lirc-remotes | 0.6.6 | GPL | Lirc remotes database | LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. This package contains configuration files for many remotes supported by lirc. |
| lm_sensors | 2.8.4 | GPL | Utilities for lm_sensors | This package contains a collection of user space tools for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring. SMBus, also known as System Management Bus, is a protocol for communicating through a I2C ('I squared C') bus. Many modern mainboards have a System Management Bus. There are a lot of devices which can be connected to a SMBus; the most notable are modern memory chips with EEPROM memories and chips for hardware monitoring. Most modern mainboards incorporate some form of hardware monitoring chips. These chips read things like chip temperatures, fan rotation speeds and voltage levels. There are quite a few different chips which can be used by mainboard builders for approximately the same results. |
| lshw | 1.05 | GPL | An hardware listener | lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. |
| lvm1 | 1.0.8 | GPL | Logical Volume Manager administration tools | LVM 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 losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups. |
| lvm2 | 2.00.08 | GPL | Logical Volume Manager administration tools | LVM 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 losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups. |
| makedev | 4.1 | GPL | A program used for creating the 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 (serial or printer ports, scanners, sound cards, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, hard drives, etc.) and interface with the drivers in the kernel. The makedev package is a basic part of your Mandrake Linux system and it needs to be installed. |
| mdadm | 1.5.0 | GPL | A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux | mdadm is a program that can be used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (Software RAID) devices. As such is provides similar functionality to the raidtools packages. The particular differences to raidtools is that mdadm is a single program, and it can perform (almost) all functions without a configuration file (that a config file can be used to help with some common tasks). |
| memtest86+ | 1.11 | GPL | A stand alone memory test for i386 architecture systems | Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for i386 architecture systems. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often missfailures that are detected by Memtest86. |
| microcode_ctl | 1.06 | GPL | Intel P6 CPU Microcode Utility | Since PentiumPro, Intel CPU are make of a RISC chip and of a microcode whose purpose is to decompose "old" ia32 instruction into new risc ones. P6 familly is concerned: PPro, PII, Celeron, PIII, Celeron2. Recent kernels have the ability to update this microcode. The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot. I.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently. Reboot and it reverts back to the old microcode. |
| mindi | 0.87 | GPL | Creates emergency boot disks/CDs using your kernel, tools and modules. | Mindi takes your kernel, modules, tools and libraries, and puts them on N bootable disks (or 1 bootable CD image). You may then boot from the disks/CD and do system maintenance - e.g. format partitions, backup/restore data, verify packages, etc. |
| mkbootdisk | 1.4.5 | GPL | Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. | The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system. |
| mkinitrd | 3.5.18 | GPL | Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules | Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file. |
| mkinitrd-net | 1.10 | GPL/LGPL/MPL | Network-booting initrd builder | mkinitrd-net allows you to build initial ramdisk images (initrds) suitable for use with Etherboot and other network-booting software. This package contains two main utilities: mkinitrd-net (to build an initrd containing a specified set of network-card modules) and mknbi (to generate Etherboot-usable NBI images from a given kernel and initrd). It also contains a helper script mknbi-set which will maintain sets of initrds to match all your currently-installed kernels. mkinitrd-net uses code from the uClibc, busybox, udhcp and Etherboot projects. |
| module-init-tools | 3.0 | GPL | Tools for managing Linux kernel modules | This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.47 and above). It serves the same function that the "modutils" package serves for Linux 2.4. |
| modutils | 2.4.26 | GPL | The kernel daemon (kerneld) and kernel module utilities. | The modutils packages includes the kerneld program for automatic loading and unloading of modules under 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, as well as other module management programs. Examples of loaded and unloaded modules are device drivers and filesystems, as well as some other things. |
| mosix-utils | 1.5.7 | GPL | The utilities to manage MOSIX clusters | MOSIX utils |
| ntfsprogs | 1.8.4 | GPL | NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities | The Linux-NTFS project aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to the Linux operating system. Linux-NTFS currently consists of a static library and utilities. This package contains the following utilities: ntfscat: concatenate files and print them on the standard output ntfsclone: efficiently clone an NTFS filesystem ntfscluster: identify files in a specified region of an NTFS volume mkntfs: format a partition with the NTFS filesystem ntfsfix: tool for fixing NTFS partitions altered by the Linux kernel NTFS driver ntfsinfo: dump a file's attributes ntfslabel: display/change the label on an ntfs file system ntfsls: list directory contents on an NTFS file system ntfsresize: resize an NTFS filesystem ntfsundelete: recover a deleted file from an NTFS volume |
| OpenIPMI | 1.2.7 | GPL | A set of tools to access IPMI controller | OpenIPMI is full-function IPMI system to access to IPMI information |
| opensc | 0.8.1 | GPL | Library for accessing SmartCard devices | opensc is a library for accessing smart card devices using PC/SC Lite middleware package. It is also the core library of the OpenSC project. Basic functionality (e.g. SELECT FILE, READ BINARY) should work on any ISO 7816-4 compatible smart card. Encryption and decryption using private keys on the SmartCard is at the moment possible only with PKCS #15 compatible cards. |
| pam_opensc | 0.8.1 | GPL | OpenSC PAM module | This package contains PAM authentication module of OpenSC. |
| pciutils | 2.1.11 | GPL | PCI bus related utilities. | This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. The utilities provided require kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (supporting the /proc/bus/pci interface). |
| pcmcia-cs | 3.2.5 | GPL | The daemon for using PCMCIA adapters. | Many laptop machines (and some non-laptops) support PCMCIA cards for expansion. Also known as "credit card adapters," PCMCIA cards are small cards for everything from SCSI support to modems. PCMCIA cards are hot swappable (i.e., they can be exchanged without rebooting the system) and quite convenient to use. The pcmcia-cs package contains a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events by loading and unloading drivers on demand. The daemon also supports hot swapping, so that the cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time. |
| pcmcia-cs-x11 | 3.2.5 | GPL | X11 frontend for pcmcia-cs package. | This is the X11 front-end interface (based on gtk) for the pcmcia-cs package. |
| prism2-utils | 0.2.1 | MPL | Utilities from the linux-wlan-ng project | Tools for configuring the prism2 drivers for wireless network cards using Intersil's Prism2/2.5/3 chipsets. |
| raidtools | 0.90 | GPL | Tools for creating and maintaining software RAID devices. | This package includes the tools you need to set up and maintain a software RAID device under Linux. It only works with Linux 2.2 kernels and later, or 2.0 kernel specifically patched with newer raid support. |
| reiserfsprogs | 3.6.11 | GPL | The utilities to create Reiserfs volume. | Reiserfs is a file system using a plug-in based object oriented variant on classical balanced tree algorithms. The results when compared to the ext2fs conventional block allocation based file system running under the same operating system and employing the same buffering code suggest that these algorithms are overall more efficient, and are becoming more so every passing month. Loosely speaking, every month we find another performance cranny that needs work, and we fix it, and every month we find some way of improving our overall general usage performance. The improvement in small file space and time performance suggests that we may now revisit a common OS design assumption that one should aggregate small objects using layers above the file system layer. Being more effective at small files DOES NOT make us less effective for other files, this is a general purpose FS, and our overall traditional FS usage performance is high enough to establish that. Reiserfs has a commitment to opening up the FS design to contributions, and we are now now adding plug-ins so that you can create your own types of directories and files. |
| sane-backends | 1.0.13 | LGPL | SANE - local and remote scanner access. | SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is a sane and simple interface to both local and networked scanners and other image acquisition devices like digital still and video cameras. SANE currently includes modules for accessing a range of scanners, including models from Agfa SnapScan, Apple, Artec, Canon, CoolScan, Epson, HP, Microtek, Mustek, Nikon, Siemens, Tamarack, UMAX, Connectix, QuickCams and other SANE devices via network. For the latest information on SANE, the SANE standard definition, and mailing list access, see http://www.mostang.com/sane/ This package does not enable network scanning by default; if you wish to enable it, install the saned package and set up the sane-net backend. This package contains the backends for different scanners. |
| saned | 1.0.13 | LGPL | SANE - local and remote scanner access. | SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is a sane and simple interface to both local and networked scanners and other image acquisition devices like digital still and video cameras. SANE currently includes modules for accessing a range of scanners, including models from Agfa SnapScan, Apple, Artec, Canon, CoolScan, Epson, HP, Microtek, Mustek, Nikon, Siemens, Tamarack, UMAX, Connectix, QuickCams and other SANE devices via network. For the latest information on SANE, the SANE standard definition, and mailing list access, see http://www.mostang.com/sane/ This package contains saned, a daemon that allows remote clients to access image acquisition devices available on the local host. |
| scsiaddgui | 1.1 | GPL | A graphical front end for scsiadd | scsiaddgui provides a GUI for the scsiadd - utility |
| setarch | 1.3 | GPL | Personality setter | This utility tells the kernel to report a different architecture than the current one, then runs a program in that environment. |
| sg3_utils | 1.04 | GPL | Utils for Linux's SCSI generic driver devices + raw devices | Collection of tools for SCSI devices that use the Linux SCSI generic (sg) interface. Includes utilities to copy data based on "dd" syntax and semantics (called sg_dd, sgp_dd and sgm_dd); check INQUIRY data and associated pages (sg_inq); check mode and log pages (sg_modes and sg_logs); spin up and down disks (sg_start); do self tests (sg_senddiag); and various other functions. See the README and CHANGELOG files. Requires the lk 2.4 series or better. [In the lk 2.5 development series many of these utilities can be used on the primary block device name (e.g. /dev/sda).] Warning: Some of these tools access the internals of your system and the incorrect usage of them may render your system inoperable. |
| sisctrl | 0.0 | GPL | A tool for manipulating SIS driver parameters | A gtk+2 tool for manipulating various driver parameters during runtime |
| smartmontools | 5.27 | GPL | SMARTmontools - for monitoring S.M.A.R.T. disks and devices | SMARTmontools controls and monitors storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures. The suite contents two utilities. The first, smartctl, is a command line utility designed to perform simple S.M.A.R.T. tasks. The second, smartd, is a daemon that periodically monitors smart status and reports errors to syslog. The package is compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-5 specification. Future releases will be compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-6 andATA/ATAPI-7 specifications. The package is intended to incorporate as much "vendor specific" and "reserved" information as possible about disk drives. man smartctl and man smartd will provide more information. |
| speedtouch | 1.2 | GPL | ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem user-space driver | ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem user-space driver. This package contains all the necessary software to use your SpeedTouch USB modem under Linux. It currently support only PPPoA encapsulation. |
| sysctlconfig | 0.15 | GPL | A configuration tool for operating system tunable parameters | sysctl-config is a tool for configuring operating system tunable parameters. It eases modifying /etc/sysctl.conf. |
| sysfsutils | 0.4.0 | GPL | Utility suite to enjoy sysfs. | This package's purpose is to provide a set of utilities for interfacing with sysfs, a virtual filesystem in Linux kernel versions 2.5+ that provides a tree of system devices. While a filesystem is a very useful interface, we've decided to provide a stable programming interface that will hopefully make it easier for applications to query system devices and their attributes. This package currently includes: - libsysfs: a library for accessing system devices. - lsbus: a small application to query system bus information. - systool: an application to view system device information by bus, class, and topology. |
| sysklogd | 1.4.1 | GPL | System logging and kernel message trapping daemons. | The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd) which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc. |
| syslinux | 1.76 | GPL | A bootloader for linux using floppies, CD or PXE. | SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off an MS-DOS/Windows FAT filesystem. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, and for creation of rescue- and other special-purpose boot disks. This version include a patched SYSLINUX for handling VESA graphic mode. |
| syslog-ng | 1.4.17 | GPL | Syslog-ng daemon. | Syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful. Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it ideal for firewalled environments. |
| testdisk | 4.5 | GPL | Tool to check and undelete partition. | Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with the following partitions: - FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 - Linux - Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2) - NTFS (Windows NT) - BeFS (BeOS) - UFS (BSD) - Netware - ReiserFS |
| toke | 0.4 | GPL | The OpenBIOS tokenizer | toke is a GPLed FCode tokenizer. It can tokenize (assemble) fcode source to bytecode files as described by the IEEE 1275-1994 standard. This program aims towards IEEE 1275-1994 compliancy, but there is no warranty that it is actually compliant. Bytecode files normally contain Open Firmware drivers or other packages for use with an Open Firmware compliant system. |
| tpctl | 4.4 | GPL | Thinkpad Utilities | Utilities specific to IBM Thinkpads |
| udftools | 1.0.0 | GPL | UDF filesystem tools. | These are tools for UDF file systems as used, e.g., on DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, CD-RW. They are also used for managing Packet-CD/DVD devices and media. |
| ulogd | 1.02 | GPL | Ulogd - The userspace logging daemon for netfilter | Ulogd is an universal logging daemon for the ULOG target of netfilter, the Linux 2.4 firewalling subsystem. Ulogd is able to log packets in various formats to different targets (text files, databases, etc..). It has an easy-to-use plugin interface to add new protocols and new output targets. |
| ulogd-mysql | 1.02 | GPL | MySQL output plugin for ulogd | Ulogd-mysql is a MySQL output plugin for ulogd. It enables logging of firewall information into a MySQL database. |
| ulogd-pgsql | 1.02 | GPL | PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd | Ulogd-mysql is a PostgreSQL output plugin for ulogd. It enables logging of firewall information into a PostgreSQL database. |
| undelete | 0.6 | GPL | Undelete removed files on an ext2 partition | Undelete works for EXT2 filesystems. Be aware that this is ALPHA software. However, this is better than nothing ;-). (This program can't undelete files deleted while the partition was mounted as ext3) |
| usbutils | 0.11 | GPL | Linux USB utilities | usbutils contains a utility for inspecting devices connected to the USB bus. It requires a Linux kernel version 2.3.15 or newer (supporting the '/proc/bus/usb' interface). |
| usbview | 1.0 | GPL | USB topology and device viewer | USBView is a GTK program that displays the topography of the devices that are plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on each of the devices. This can be useful to determine if a device is working properly or not. |
| vlan-utils | 1.8 | GPL | Utilities for controlling vlans. | Virtual networking refers to the ability of switches and routers to configure logical topologies on top of the physical network infrastructure, allowing any arbitrary collection of LAN segments within a network to be combined into an autonomous user group, appearing as a single LAN. This package implement support (along with the kernel patch) : * Implements 802.1Q VLAN spec. * Can support up to 4094 VLANs per ethernet interface. * Scales well in critical paths: O(n), where n is the number of PHYSICAL ethernet interfaces, and that is only on ingress. O(1) in every other critical path, as far as I know. * Supports MULTICAST * Can change MAC address of VLAN. * Multiple naming conventions supported, and adjustable at runtime. * Optional header-reordering, to make the VLAN interface look JUST LIKE an Ethernet interface. This fixes some problems with DHCPd and anything else that uses a SOCK_PACKET socket. Default setting is off, which works for every other protocol I know about, and is slightly faster. |
| waitclose | 0.3 | GPL | Waits for a user to insert cdroms. | waitclose is a trivially simple program that is useful in scripts that need to wait for a user to insert cdroms. If the disc drive is empty it will eject it. If a disc is present it considers its work done. If the disc drive is open it will wait until it closes with a disc in it. Closing the tray without anything in it will cause it to be re-opened. |
| watchdog | 5.2.3 | GPL & QPL | Software watchdog | Watchdog monitors various aspects of a machine to ensure that is has not locked up. In the event that a machine has locked up, watchdog will envoke a reboot of the system. |
| webcam_server | 0.40 | GPL | A server to stream webcam video or snapshots | webcam_server is a server daemon that can stream frames from any video4linux device to remote clients running the provided applet or single frame snapshots running a web browser. Client applets provided in /usr/share/doc/webcam_server-0.40/client |
| win4lin-utils | 3 | GPL | Bootloader configuration scripts for Win4Lin Kernels | This package is a version of Mandrake's installkernel script tailored for Win4Lin kernels, and menu entries for the win4lin tools. |
| wireless-tools | 26 | GPL | Wireless ethernet configuration tools | This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats for wireless networking equipment. This is specifically useful since it allows manipulation of encryption parameters possible with the GPL WaveLAN cards. |
| x86info | 1.12b | GPL | Show x86 CPU information | Unlike other 'cpuinfo' tools which just parse /proc/cpuinfo, x86info probes the CPU registers to find out a lot more information. It can discover the contents of model-specific registers, discover CPU silicon revisions, and lots more. |
| xfsdump | 2.2.16 | GPL | Administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem. | The xfsdump package contains xfsdump, xfsrestore and a number of other utilities for administering XFS filesystems. xfsdump examines files in a filesystem, determines which need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. It uses XFS-specific directives for optimizing the dump of an XFS filesystem, and also knows how to backup XFS extended attributes. Backups created with xfsdump are "endian safe" and can thus be transfered between Linux machines of different architectures and also between IRIX machines. xfsrestore performs the inverse function of xfsdump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may be restored from full or partial backups. |
| xfsprogs | 2.6.3 | GPL | Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem. | A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs. XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS. |
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