Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources in real-time, you can, e.g., compare disk utilization in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval).

nettop is a traffic visualizer for the terminal that summarizes network bandwidth by process and remote host.

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.

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the WLAN driver.

This package provides the wpa_supplicant daemon and the wpa_cli command.

nnn is a fork of noice, a fast and minimal text terminal file browser with keyboard shortcuts for navigation, opening files and running tasks. There is no configuration file and MIME associations are hard-coded.

Detox is a program that renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and related operating systems. Spaces and various other unsafe characters (such as "$") get replaced with "_". ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters can be replaced as well, as can UTF-8 characters.

GNU Rot[t]log is a program for managing log files. It is used to automatically rotate out log files when they have reached a given size or according to a given schedule. It can also be used to automatically compress and archive such logs. Rot[t]log will mail reports of its activity to the system administrator.

CoreCtrl allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.

This package provides tools to manage clients of the Logitech Unifying Receiver.

di is a disk information utility, displaying everything that your df command does and more. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you prefer. It is designed to be highly portable and produce uniform output across heterogeneous networks.

pam-hooks is a tiny PAM module enabling the execution of hook scripts when a PAM session is opened or closed. The typical use case is the need of doing some per-user set-up when a user logs via a PAM-aware login mechanism and/or the need of doing some per-user clean-up when the user logs out.

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

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.

Hosts is a command line program for managing /etc/hosts entries. On Guix System, /etc/hosts is managed from the system configuration; hosts only works when using the Guix package manager on a foreign distro. hosts works with existing hosts files and entries, providing commands to add, remove, comment, and search.

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.

The Router Advertisement Daemon (radvd) is run on systems acting as IPv6 routers. It sends Router Advertisement messages specified by RFC 2461 periodically and when requested by a node sending a Router Solicitation message. These messages are required for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration.

Lynis is a security auditing tool. It performs an in-depth security scan and runs on the system itself. The primary goal is to test security defenses and provide tips for further system hardening. It will also scan for general system information, vulnerable software packages, and possible configuration issues.

This package provides the hcloud binary, a command-line interface for interacting with the Hetzner Cloud service.

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.

A program that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provides a "top-like" mode (monitoring).

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.

GNU Alive sends periodic pings to a server, generally to keep a connection alive.

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 is the core of Ansible, which provides the following commands:

• ansible

• ansible-config

• ansible-connection

• ansible-console

• ansible-doc

• ansible-galaxy

• ansible-inventory

• ansible-playbook

• ansible-pull

• ansible-test

• ansible-vault