7-zip is a command-line file compressor that supports a number of archive formats and features self-extracting archives.

Lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. Lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services, and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed (at the cost of some compression ratio).

BZip3 is a spiritual successor to BZip2. Features higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code making use of suffix arrays and a RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling.

Like its ancestor, BZip3 excels at compressing text or code.

This package provides a parallel implementation of gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores when compressing data.

XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.

The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK, but it has been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. The primary compression algorithm is currently LZMA2, which is used inside the .xz container format. With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller output than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.

Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts archives in a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX pax format compressed with lzip, keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such compressed archives.

zlib-ng is a zlib replacement with optimizations for next generation systems.

This package provides a simple zip library based on miniz.

Zstandard (zstd) is a lossless compression algorithm that combines very fast operation with a compression ratio comparable to that of zlib. In most scenarios, both compression and decompression can be performed in ‘real time’. The compressor can be configured to provide the most suitable trade-off between compression ratio and speed, without affecting decompression speed.

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant's ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech's Qt toolkit.

QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files.

QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() system call. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

Compton is a compositor for the Xorg display server and a for of xcompmgr-dana, which implements some changes like:

• OpenGL backend (--backend glx), in addition to the old X Render backend.

• Inactive window transparency (-i) and dimming (--inactive-dim).

• Menu transparency (-m, thanks to Dana).

• Shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g terminals with transparency

• Removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code, the only option that remains is clientside shadows.

• Configuration files (see the man page for more details).

• Colored shadows (--shadow-[red/green/blue]).

• A new fade system.

• VSync support (not always working).

• Blur of background of transparent windows, window color inversion (bad in performance).

• Some more options...

Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing.

Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.

The gem5 simulator is a modular platform for computer-system architecture research, encompassing system-level architecture as well as processor microarchitecture.

Ripes is a visual computer architecture simulator and assembly code editor built for the RISCV instruction set architecture.

This package helps to manage personal configuration files across multiple machines.

The rcm suite of tools is for managing dotfiles directories. This is a directory containing all the .*rc files in your home directory (.zshrc, .vimrc, and so on). These files have gone by many names in history, such as “rc files” because they typically end in rc or “dotfiles” because they begin with a period. This suite is useful for committing your rc files to a central repository to share, but it also scales to a more complex situation such as multiple source directories shared between computers with some host-specific or task-specific files.

Konsave is CLI that lets you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones. Features:

• storing configurations in profiles

• exporting profiles to '.knsv' files

• import profiles from '.knsv' files

• official support for KDE Plasma

BundleWrap is a decentralized configuration management system that is designed to be powerful, easy to extend and extremely versatile.

By allowing for easy and low-overhead config management, BundleWrap fills the gap between complex deployments using Chef or Puppet and old school system administration over SSH. While most other config management systems rely on a client-server architecture, BundleWrap works off a repository cloned to local machine. It then automates the process of SSHing into servers and making sure everything is configured the way it's supposed to be.

Cmst is a Qt based frontend for the connman connection manager. This package also provides a systemtray icon.

Connman provides a daemon for managing Internet connections. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible. It is fully modular system that can be extended through plug-ins. The plug-in approach allows for easy adaption and modification for various use cases. Connman implements DNS resolving and caching, DHCP clients for both IPv4 and IPv6, link-local IPv4 address handling and tethering (IP connection sharing) to clients via USB, ethernet, WiFi, cellular and Bluetooth.

An EFL user interface for the connman connection manager.

This package provides a replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.

It can be used with QEMU, Hyperkit, Hyper-V and User-Mode Linux.

The binary is called gvproxy.

passt implements a thin layer between guest and host, that only implements what's strictly needed to pretend processes are running locally. The TCP adaptation doesn't keep per-connection packet buffers, and reflects observed sending windows and acknowledgements between the two sides. This TCP adaptation is needed as passt runs without the CAP_NET_RAW capability: it can't create raw IP sockets on the pod, and therefore needs to map packets at Layer-2 to Layer-4 sockets offered by the host kernel.

Also provides pasta, which similarly to slirp4netns, provides networking to containers by creating a tap interface available to processes in the namespace, and mapping network traffic outside the namespace using native Layer-4 sockets.