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.

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, and more on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

This simple Linux kernel module allows calls from user space to any ACPI method provided by your computer's firmware, by writing to /proc/acpi/call. You can pass any number of parameters of types ACPI_INTEGER, ACPI_STRING, and ACPI_BUFFER.

It grants direct and undocumented access to your hardware that may cause damage and should be used with caution, especially on untested models.

This package provides tools for manipulating ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems.

As a consequence of its monolithic design, file system code for Linux normally goes into the kernel itself---which is not only a robustness issue, but also an impediment to system extensibility. FUSE, for "file systems in user space", is a kernel module and user-space library that tries to address part of this problem by allowing users to run file system implementations as user-space processes.

F2FS, the Flash-Friendly File System, is a modern file system designed to be fast and durable on flash devices such as solid-state disks and SD cards. This package provides the userland utilities.

libnetfilter_queue is a userspace library providing an API to packets that have been queued by the kernel packet filter. It is is part of a system that deprecates the old ip_queue/libipq mechanism.

Extundelete is a set of tools that can recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition.

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.

This is the Linux driver for the Cray/HPE Cassini 1 and 2 high-speed network interconnect (aka. Slingshot), and its Ethernet driver. It includes the uapi/misc/cxi.h C header file for use by user-land software.

Currently the Linux driver itself is missing from this package.

The libnl suite is a collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces. Netlink is an IPC mechanism primarily between the kernel and user space processes. It was designed to be a more flexible successor to ioctl to provide mainly networking related kernel configuration and monitoring interfaces.

This library provides APIs to access the Linux kernel's trace file system.

SimpleIni provides a simple API to read and write INI-style configuration files. It supports data files in ASCII, MBCS and Unicode.

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.

psmisc is a set of small utilities that use the proc file system.

• fuser identifies processes using files or sockets;

• killall kills processes by name;

• prtstat prints statistics of a process;

• pslog prints the log file(s) of a process;

• pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree;

• peekfd shows the data travelling over a file descriptor.

This package provides a renameat2 command that calls the Linux-specific renameat2 system call.

ryzenadj is an utility to adjust power management settings for AMD Ryzen mobile processors. You will need to ensure it can access /dev/mem, for instance by using the "iomem=relaxed" kernel argument.

iucode_tool is a utility to work with microcode packages for Intel processors. It can convert between formats, extract specific versions, create a firmware image suitable for the Linux kernel, and more.

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 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.

This package provides a Linux Kernel module that controls battery charging of specific ThinkPad laptops. It also includes an improved version of the HDAPS driver. The underlying hardware interfaces are SMAPI and direct access to the embedded controller.

Collection of tools to query what type of USB devices are connected to the system, including lsusb. The experimental usbreset command included in the package, but be aware that it may not work for all devices.

Libevdi is a library that gives applications easy access to EVDI devices provided by the evdi driver package.

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.