GNU Linux-Libre is a free (as in freedom) variant of the Linux kernel. It has been modified to remove all non-free binary blobs.

This package provides the documentation for the kernel Linux-Libre, as an Info manual. To consult it, run info linux.

nftables is the project that aims to replace the existing ip,ip6,arp,ebtables framework. Basically, this project provides a new packet filtering framework, a new userspace utility and also a compatibility layer for ip,ip6tables. nftables is built upon the building blocks of the Netfilter infrastructure such as the existing hooks, the connection tracking system, the userspace queueing component and the logging subsystem.

Udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from /dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at boot time.

ddate displays the Discordian date and holidays of a given date. The Discordian calendar was made popular by the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

The GPM (general-purpose mouse) daemon is a mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. It allows users to select items and copy/paste text in the console and in xterm.

Kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies and aliases.

These tools are designed on top of libkmod, a library that is shipped with kmod. The aim is to be compatible with tools, configurations and indices from the module-init-tools project.

WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire's API, providing convenience for writing the daemon's modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.

rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the rfkill device interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband.

This is a file system client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: on the server side there's nothing to do; on the client side mounting the file system is as easy as logging into the server with an SSH client.

Monitor a hardware random number generator, and supply entropy from that to the system kernel's /dev/random machinery.

The CRDA acts as the udev helper for communication between the kernel Linux and user space for regulatory compliance.

This package is low-level user-level Intel's communications interface. The PSM2 API is a high-performance vendor-specific protocol that provides a low-level communications interface for the Intel Omni-Path family of high-speed networking devices.

This package provides a program to generate an ext2 file system as a normal (non-root) user. It does not require you to mount the image file to copy files on it, nor does it require that you become the superuser to make device nodes.

ltrace intercepts and records dynamic library calls which are called by an executed process and the signals received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program.

Modprobed-db is a useful utility for users wishing to build a minimal kernel via a make localmodconfig. In a nutshell, this make target creates a config based on the current config and a list of modules you define (that modprobed-db keeps for you). It then disables any module option that is not needed thus not building extraneous modules. This results in a system-specific, streamlined kernel package and footprint as well as reduced compilation times.

Modprobed-db simply logs every module ever probed on the target system to a text-based database ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/modprobed-db), which can be read directly by make localmodconfig as described above.

kernel-hardening-checker is a tool for checking the security hardening options of the Linux kernel. Provided preferences are based on suggestions from various sources, including:

• KSPP recommended settings

• CLIP OS kernel configuration

• Last public grsecurity patch (options which they disable)

• SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM patchset

• Direct feedback from the Linux kernel maintainers

This tool supports checking Kconfig options and kernel cmdline parameters.

TLP is a power management tool for Linux. It comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life. Nevertheless, TLP is customizable to fulfil system requirements. TLP settings are applied every time the power supply source is changed.

NTFS-3G provides read-write access to NTFS file systems, which are commonly found on Microsoft Windows. It is implemented as a FUSE file system. The package provides additional NTFS tools.

libnetfilter_cthelper is a userspace library that provides a programming interface to user-space connection tracking helpers.

1. register new user-space connection tracking helpers

2. unregister user-space connection tracking helpers

3. list existing registered user-space connection tracking helpers

This utility can read or write specific registers or all the available registers of the EC supported by the ec_sys Linux driver.

Utilities for Linux's Ethernet bridging facilities. A bridge is a way to connect two Ethernet segments together in a protocol independent way. Packets are forwarded based on Ethernet address, rather than IP address (like a router). Since forwarding is done at Layer 2, all protocols can go transparently through a bridge.

The reform2_lpc module allows for interaction with the NXP LPC11U24 Cortex-M0 MCU system controller in the Reform 2 open hardware laptop. It provides battery status information and is necessary to completely shut down the system when powering it off via userspace.

This package provides the following binaries to drive the Linux Device Mapper multipathing driver:

1. multipath - Device mapper target autoconfig.

2. multipathd - Multipath daemon.

3. mpathpersist - Manages SCSI persistent reservations on dm multipath devices.

4. kpartx - Create device maps from partition tables.