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.

Util-linux is a diverse collection of Linux kernel utilities. It provides dmesg and includes tools for working with file systems, block devices, UUIDs, TTYs, and many other tools.

This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr).

This package provides statically-linked e2fsck command taken from the e2fsprogs package. It is meant to be used in initrds.

iptables is the user-space command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and later IPv4 packet filtering ruleset (firewall), including NAT (Network Address Translation).

This package also includes ip6tables, which is used to configure the IPv6 packet filter.

Both commands are targeted at system administrators.

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.

Tmon is a tool to interact with the complex thermal subsystem of the kernel Linux. It helps visualize thermal relationships and real-time thermal data, tune and test cooling devices and sensors, and collect thermal data for further analysis.

As computers become smaller and more thermally constrained, more sensors are added and new cooling capabilities introduced. Thermal relationships can change dynamically. Their complexity grows exponentially among cooling devices, zones, sensors, and trip points.

Linux exposes this relationship through /sys/class/thermal with a matrix of symbolic links, trip point bindings, and device instances. To traverse it by hand is no trivial task: tmon aims to make it understandable.

x86_energy_perf_policy displays and updates energy-performance policy settings specific to Intel Architecture Processors. Settings are accessed via Model Specific Register (MSR) updates, no matter if the Linux cpufreq sub-system is enabled or not.

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.

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.

Procps is the package that has a bunch of small useful utilities that give information about processes using the Linux /proc file system. The package includes the programs free, pgrep, pidof, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, slabtop, tload, top, vmstat, w, watch and sysctl.

This package contains utilities for accessing the powercap Linux kernel feature through sysfs. It includes an implementation for working with Intel RAPL. It provides the commands powercap-info and powercap-set.

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

BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples. It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Packet Filters), formally known as eBPF, a new feature that was first added to Linux 3.15. Much of what BCC uses requires Linux 4.1 and above.

PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like using an arbitrary directory as the new root file system, making files accessible somewhere else in the file system hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism. Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in the kernel Linux.

The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. These include mpstat, iostat, tapestat, cifsiostat, pidstat, sar, sadc, sadf and sa.

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.

acpi attempts to replicate the functionality of the "old" apm command on ACPI systems, including battery and thermal information. It does not support ACPI suspending, only displays information about ACPI devices.

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

OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. OFI is best described as a collection of libraries and applications used to export fabric services. The key components of OFI are: application interfaces, provider libraries, kernel services, daemons, and test applications.

Libfabric is a core component of OFI. It is the library that defines and exports the user-space API of OFI, and is typically the only software that applications deal with directly. It works in conjunction with provider libraries, which are often integrated directly into libfabric.

Irqbalance is a daemon to help balance the CPU load generated by interrupts across all of a systems CPUs. Irqbalance identifies the highest volume interrupt sources, and isolates each of them to a single unique CPU, so that load is spread as much as possible over an entire processor set, while minimizing cache miss rates for irq handlers.

BlueZ provides support for the core Bluetooth layers and protocols. It is flexible, efficient and uses a modular implementation.

Linux kernel patches and device-trees used for the MNT Reform systems

This package provides commands to create and check XFS file systems.