This program allows you read and control device brightness. Devices include backlight and LEDs. It can also preserve current brightness before applying the operation, such as on lid close.

The appropriate permissions must be set on the backlight or LED control interface in sysfs, which can be accomplished with the included udev rules.

archivemount is a FUSE-based file system for Unix variants, including Linux. Its purpose is to mount archives (i.e. tar, tar.gz, etc.) to a mount point where it can be read from or written to as with any other file system. This makes accessing the contents of the archive, which may be compressed, transparent to other programs, without decompressing them.

strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program.

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.

Libavc1394 is a programming interface to the AV/C specification from the 1394 Trade Association. AV/C stands for Audio/Video Control.

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

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux-based operating system.

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.

This package provides a PAM interface using ctypes.

Prevents shock damage to the internal spinning hard drive(s) of some HP and Dell laptops. When sudden movement is detected, all input/output operations on the drive are suspended and its heads are parked on the ramp, where they are less likely to cause damage to the spinning disc. Requires a drive that supports the ATA/ATAPI-7 IDLE IMMEDIATE command with unload feature, and a laptop with an accelerometer. It has no effect on SSDs.

libnvme provides type definitions for NVMe specification structures, enumerations, and bit fields, helper functions to construct, dispatch, and decode commands and payloads, and utilities to connect, scan, and manage nvme devices on a Linux system.

The cpufrequtils suite contains utilities to retrieve CPU frequency information, and set the CPU frequency if supported, using the cpufreq capabilities of the Linux kernel.

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.

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.

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. Configuration options and patches have been applied for use with MNT/Reform systems.

This package provides a shell script to assess your system's resilience against the several transient execution CVEs that were published since early 2018, and gives guidance as to how to mitigate them.

Libcxi provides applications with a low-level interface to the Cray/HPE Cassini high-speed NIC, also known as Slingshot.

ebtables is an application program used to set up and maintain the tables of rules (inside the Linux kernel) that inspect Ethernet frames. It is analogous to the iptables application, but less complicated, due to the fact that the Ethernet protocol is much simpler than the IP protocol.

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 package provides a C port of NoteBook FanControl (NBFC), a fan control service for notebooks. It provides the same utilities with the same interfaces as the original NBFC, although the implementation differs.

evtest is a tool to print evdev kernel events. It reads directly from the kernel device and prints a device description and the events with the value and the symbolic name.

Blktrace is a block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed information about request queue operations to user space. It extracts event traces from the kernel (via the relaying through the debug file system).

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. Configuration options and patches have been applied for use with MNT/Reform systems.

nfacct is the command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects

1. listing the objects of the nfacct table in plain text/XML

2. atomically get and reset objects of the nfacct table

3. adding new objects to the nfacct table

4. deleting objects from the nfacct table