The GNU Shepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it supervises the execution of system services, replacing similar functionality found in typical init systems. It provides dependency-handling through a convenient interface and is based on GNU Guile.

The ACPICA project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the ACPI specification. ACPICA code contains those portions of ACPI meant to be directly integrated into the host OS as a kernel-resident subsystem, and a small set of tools to assist in developing and debugging ACPI tables.

This package contains only the user-space tools needed for ACPI table development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.

This project aims to provide an extension to the Shepherd, retraining it as a swineherd, a manager of crude system containers. It does this by providing a Shepherd service swineherd that talks to the Shepherd process to create Guix System containers as Shepherd services. It also comes with an optional HTTP API server.

hungrycat prints the contents of a file to standard output, while simultaneously freeing the disk space it occupied. It is useful if you need to process a large file, don't have enough space to store both the input and output files, and don't need the input file afterwards. While similar in principle to running cat immediately followed by rm, hungrycat actually frees blocks as soon as they are printed instead of after the entire file has been read, which is often too late.

Doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.

fdupes is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories.

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It's a Python port and continuation of bashtop.

Small console getty that is started on the Linux text console, asks for a login name and then transfers over to login. It is extended to allow automatic login and starting any app.

This package contains a debugging tool for Allwinner devices (connects via USB OTG).

Sipcalc is an advanced command-line IP subnet calculator. It can take multiple forms of input (IPv4/IPv6/interface/hostname) and output a multitude of information about a given subnet.

Features include:

• IPv4

  • Retrieving of address information from interfaces.

  • Classfull and CIDR output.

  • Multiple address and netmask input and output formats (dotted quad, hex, number of bits).

  • Output of broadcast address, network class, Cisco wildcard, hosts/range, network range.

  • The ability to split a network based on a smaller netmask, now also with recursive runs on the generated subnets. (also IPv6)

• IPv6

  • Compressed and expanded input and output addresses.

  • Standard IPv6 network output.

  • v4 in v6 output.

  • Reverse DNS address generation.

hostapd is a user-space daemon for WiFi access points and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators, RADIUS client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server.

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from its configuration files. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms that are used to check the integrity of files. All of the usual file attributes can be checked for inconsistencies.

daemonize runs a command as a Unix daemon. It will close all open file descriptors, change working directory of the process to the root filesystem, reset its umask, run in the background, ignore I/O signals, handle SIGCHLD, etc. Most programs that are designed to be run as daemons do that work for themselves. However, you’ll occasionally run across one that does not. When you must run a daemon program that does not properly make itself into a true Unix daemon, you can use daemonize to force it to run as a true daemon.

sedsed can debug, indent, tokenize and HTMLize your sed script.

In debug mode, it reads your script and adds extra commands to it. When executed you can see the data flow between the commands, revealing all the magic sed performs on its internal buffers.

In indent mode, your script is reformatted with standard spacing.

In tokenize mode, you can see the elements of every command you use.

In HTMLize mode, your script is converted to a beautiful colored HTML file, with all the commands and parameters identified for your viewing pleasure.

With sedsed you can master any sed script. No more secrets, no more hidden buffers.

Ansible aims to be a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible facilitates complex changes like zero-downtime rolling updates with load balancers. This package provides a curated set of community-maintained Ansible collections, which contain playbooks, roles, modules and plugins that extend Ansible.

This package provides a minimal seat management daemon whose task is to mediate access to shared devices, such as graphics and input, for applications that require it.

This package provides an implementation of the MAC-Telnet protocol used by RouterOS devices. It provides the following commands:

macping

Ping RouterOS devices or mactelnetd hosts.

mactelnetd

MAC-Telnet daemon.

mactelnet

MAC-Telnet client.

mndp

Discover other RouterOS devices or mactelnetd hosts.

lr is a tool for generating file listings, which includes the best features of ls(1), find(1), stat(1) and du(1).

UDPcast is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PC's at once. The advantage of UDPcast over using other methods (nfs, ftp, whatever) is that UDPcast uses UDP's multicast abilities: it won't take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install just 2.

This package contains a set of utilities for cloud computing environments:

• cloud-localds Create a disk for cloud-init to utilize nocloud

• cloud-publish-image Wrapper for cloud image publishing

• cloud-publish-tarball Wrapper for publishing cloud tarballs

• cloud-publish-ubuntu Import a Ubuntu cloud image

• ec2metadata Query and display EC2 metadata

• growpart Grow a partition to fill the device

• mount-image-callback Mount a file and run a command

• resize-part-image Resize a partition image to a new size

• ubuntu-cloudimg-query Get the latest Ubuntu AMI

• ubuntu-ec2-run Run a EC2 instance using Ubuntu

• vcs-run Obtain a repository, and run a command

• write-mime-multipart Handle multipart MIME messages

The GNU Shepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it supervises the execution of system services, replacing similar functionality found in typical init systems. It provides dependency-handling through a convenient interface and is based on GNU Guile.

Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in Bash. Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice. The main purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screenshots to show other users what operating system or distribution you are running, what theme or icon set you are using, etc.

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

The Neighbor Discovery Protocol Proxy Daemon (ndppd) proxies some IPv6 NDP messages between interfaces to allow IPv6 routing between machines that are in the same network but not on the same local link. It currently only supports Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement messages.