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This section contains many general utilities for configuring your Linux system and external devices. Here you will find programs for Power Management, tools for configuring ISA devices and many others.

adjtimex

• Version: Stable 1.9
• Byte Size:  44.8 KB (45,922 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 4th, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/utils/administration
• Binary: RPM PPC Alpha
• Description: Display or set the kernel time variables. Useful for comparing Real Time Clock to System Clock.
  

Advanced Power Management Daemon

• Version: Stable 3.0beta9
• Byte Size:  156.9 KB (160,629 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/
• Binary: RPM, Debian
• Description: This is a Advanced Power Management daemon and utilities. It can watch your notebook's battery and warn all users when the battery is low.
  

Am-utils

• Version: Stable 6.0.3
• Byte Size:  1.3 MB (1,339,522 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: Febraury 18, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/
• Description: Am-utils is the "next generation" of the popular BSD Automounter, Amd. Am-utils includes many additional updates, ports, programs, features (such as NFS V.3 support and shared libraries), bug fixes, and more.
  

ascii

• Version: Stable 2.7
• Byte Size:  10.2 KB (10,471 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 8, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://locke.ccil.org/pub/esr
• Description: A handy little utility that recognizes many different ways of naming an ASCII character (hex, octal, binary, decimal, C escape, ISO character table pair, slang names, and others) and prints out all the equivalents.
  

Autorun

• Version: Stable 2.6
• Byte Size:  114.1 KB (116,799 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 12, 2000
• Binary: RPM,Alpha
• Description: autorun automatically recognizes all available CDROMs in the system, mounts them upon insertion of a media and executes a possible autorun executable on the CD.
  

Beowulf Diskless Cluster Suite

• Version: Stable 1.0
• Byte Size:  1.7 MB (1,762,407 bytes)
• License: OpenSource
• Revision Date: January 5th, 2000
• Home Page: http://smile.cpe.ku.ac.th/software/diskless
• Description: Diskless Cluster Suite is a utility that help you build a diskless beowulf cluster easily. Features: Supported remote booting by ROM or floppy, by using Etherboot package. User defined where the kernel is, floppy or server. Easy to use menu based user interface, just follow the menu. Configurable system services for all nodes. Load and save configuration. Automatically generates all configuration file. Supported up to 254 diskless nodes in this version.
  

bexec

• Version: Stable 1.1.2
• Byte Size:  26.3 KB (26,959 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 5, 1999
• Description: This packages allows a process ID space to span multiple nodes in a cluster environment and also provides mechanisms for starting processes on other nodes. For Beowulf users who don't want to have to patch the kernel to use bproc.
  

BProc

• Version: Stable 0.2.0
• Byte Size:  82.7 KB (84,732 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 22, 1999
• Home Page: http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/bproc.html
• Description: Beowulf Distributed Process Space: This package allows a process ID space to span multiple nodes in a cluster environment and also provides mechanisms for starting processes on other nodes. (This package is for Linux 2.2.x kernels.)
  

Card Services (PCMCIA)

• Version: Stable 3.1.11  /  Development
• Byte Size:  1.0 MB (1,065,520 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 18th, 2000
• Home Page: http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA or "PC Card" support package. It includes a set of loadable kernel modules that implement a version of the Card Services applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards, and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand. It supports ``hot swapping'' of most card types, so cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time.
  

Choose-OS

• Version: Stable 0.84
• Byte Size:  344.0 KB (352,282 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 3, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
• Description: Choose-OS is a menu-based, fully configurable modular boot loader for Linux. It has many nice and helpful features not found in other boot loaders including background image and fully configurable menus. Supports bzImages and initrd. Other features include MBR rewrite (useful for hiding dos from windows95/98). "Single-shot autoboot" can be used, for example, by included "rebooter" to easily switch from linux to another operating system. An easy-to-use configuration editor for X, Visual Chos, included.
  

CluClo

• Version: Stable 1.0.0
• Byte Size:  3.8 MB (3,983,619 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 16th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.linuxstart.com/~flux/cluclo/
• Description: CluClo (Cluster Clone) is a cloning tool, mainly useful for setting up large clusters, however any system can be cloned and the cloning server only needs to be able to support NFS. Boot disk is included based on a 2.2.12 kernel. Cloning is done all automatic and without the need to attach a keyboard or monitor to the to-be-cloned computer.
  

Console Tools

• Version: Stable 0.2.3  /  Development 0.3.3
• Byte Size:  653.0 KB  /  660.0 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 26, 1999 / September 27, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/
• Binary: RPM Alpha
• Description: The Linux Console Tools is a set of tools allowing a Linux user to set up his/her console's behaviour.
  

CPU Burn

• Version: Stable 1.0.0
• Byte Size:  4.0 KB (4,101 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 2, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware
• Description: A user program to maximally load an x86 CPU to generate maximum heat for stability testing. Optimized FPU & ALU assembly for P6/K6/P5 CPUs. Results checked.
  *** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK ***
  

Delay

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  65.3 KB (66,848 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 18, 1999
• Home Page: http://onegeek.org/~tom/software/delay/
• Binary: RedHat Debian Source
• Description: Delay is a program that counts down the number of seconds specified on its command line. In this way, it's sort of like the standard sleep(1) command, except for the fact that it provides feedback of the time remaining.
  

Deltree

• Version: Stable 2.2.3
• Byte Size:  148.0 KB (151,552 bytes)
• License: Open Source
• Revision Date: March 13th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.terravista.pt/Mussulo/4714/
• Description: Multi-User Program that gives you a recycled directory (just like in KDE, Windows, Macs).Very configurable, Build in help (10 pages !), Administrator has full control, Works in text mode, and has Logging. You can restore erased files/directories into the original or alternative PATH.
  

dep.pl

• Version: Stable 1.32.1
• Byte Size:  47.7 KB (48,876 bytes)
• License: OpenSource
• Revision Date: March 1, 2000
• Home Page: http://home.lonyay.edu.hu/~mhp/dep/
• Description: Dep.pl is a small script to analyze the dependencies of a set of files and generate a nice report, or produce an easily-parsable output.
  

Disc-Cover

• Version: Stable 0.9.3
• Byte Size:  40.5 KB (41,497 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 7, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/disc-cover/
• Binary: RPM, Debian, Source
• Description: Disc-Cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It scans audio CDs and uses information from the cddb database to build a back and front cover for the cd. Output is in Latex, Dvi or Postscript.
  

E2fsprogs

• Version: Stable 1.18
• Byte Size:  810.0 KB (829,481 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 11, 1999
• Home Page: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html
• Description: E2fsprogs contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) filesystems.
  

e2recover

• Version: Stable 1.0
• Byte Size:  56.2 KB (57,520 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 2, 1999
• Home Page: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux
• Description: Tools to assist in recovering deleted files from ext2 file systems. Includes fsgrab and e2recover, a Perl script which calls both fsgrab and debugfs to automate file recovery.
  

eat

• Version: Stable 0.1
• Byte Size:  2.4 KB (2,488 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 16, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.enol.com/~markw/src/eat.html
• Description: Eat consumes a number lines of input from stdin and writes the remainder of the lines to stdout. The default is to consume just one line, but a number of lines can be specified with an optional command-line argument. eat is handy for use in pipelines where you want to feed the output of a command into a filter, but the command at the front of the pipeline prints annoying header lines.
  

editek

• Version: Development 0.4.1
• Byte Size:  4.9 KB (4,979 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 28, 1999
• Home Page: http://members.xoom.com/jfwilkus
• Description: editek is a colorizer for /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd. Currently supports themes.
  

Etherboot

• Version: Stable 4.4.4
• Byte Size:  901.6 KB (923,209 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 17th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/
• Description: Etherboot is a free software package for booting x86 PCs over a network. In principle this could be any network technology that TCP/IP runs on that supports broadcasting. In practice, the bandwidth required means it's only practical over LANs and some WANs. Etherboot is useful for booting PCs diskless.
  

Fips

• Version: Stable 2.0
• Byte Size:  158.3 KB (162,110 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 28, 1998
• Home Page: http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
• Description: This is one of the greatest programs ever written. It basically allows you to take an existing DOS partition and split it up without destroying your existing data.
  

fsresize

• Version: Stable 0.08-2
• Byte Size:  68.4 KB (70,032 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 23, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~clausen/fsresize/
• Binary: RPM Debian Source
• Description: fsresize is a front-end to libresize, which resizes your FAT16 and FAT32 partitions. It has --backup and --restore that save the bootsector, fat and root directory, which can be used to restore the partition to its initial state.
  

GNU Parted

• Version: Development 1.0.9 Pre 1
• Byte Size:  359.3 KB (367,946 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 13, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
• Description: GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
  

Good-Dog

• Version: Stable 1.5
• Byte Size:  27.3 KB (28,001 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 26, 1999
• Home Page: http://jl.photodex.com/dog/
• Description: Dog is intended as a replacement for the obscure utility "cat". In addition to emulating all of the behavior of cat, dog also has some extra functionality, including extracting ranges of lines of text and strfry()ing text.
  

GPart

• Version: Stable 0.1e
• Byte Size:  44.8 KB (45,836 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 8, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
• Description: GPart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device.
  

GPM

• Version: Stable 1.19.0
• Byte Size:  404.4 KB (414,154 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 17th, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://animal.unipv.it/pub/gpm/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: GPM (General Purpose Mouse) is a mouse server for the console and xterm, with sample clients included (emacs, etc).
  

gpsd

• Version: Stable 1.02
• Byte Size:  72.3 KB (74,073 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 19th, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.mayko.com/pub/gpsd
• Description: A sample client for gpsd, and a gps debugging tool. Connects to gps via serial port or socket connection. Can connect to DGPS over IP service. A user land daemon for nmea capable gps receivers.
  

hdparm

• Version: Stable 3.6
• Byte Size:  16.2 KB (16,548 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 26, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware
• Description: Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the Linux IDE driver and IDE drives.
  

hinv

• Version: Stable 1.4pre2
• Byte Size:  10.1 KB (10,339 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 18, 1999
• Home Page: http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software.html#hinv
• Description: hinv (Hardware Inventory) is a useful tool for SGI's IRIX operating system which displays the current hardware configuration of the system. This small Perl script attempts to do the same thing for a running Linux system.
  

htmsysinfo

• Version: Stable 1.5
• Byte Size:  19.3 KB (19,737 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 18th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/sebastianude
• Binary: Generic
• Description: Takes information about your system from /proc and creates an HTML document.
  

Hwclock

• Version: Stable 2.7
• Byte Size:  63.8 KB (65,286 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 13, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/
• Description: Hwclock is a program that runs under Linux and sets and queries the Hardware Clock, which is often called the Real Time Clock, RTC, or CMOS clock.
  

ISA Plug and Play Tools

• Version: Stable 1.21
• Byte Size:  128.1 KB (131,222 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 10, 1999
• Binary: Generic
• Description: These programs allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured on a Linux machine.
  

isodump

• Version: Stable 0.04.02
• Byte Size:  15.7 KB (16,087 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 12, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/
• Description: This is isodump, which copies an iso9660 image to stdout. In contrast to a simple cat, isodump determines the copy size from the primary descriptor of the image.
  

Joystick

• Version: Stable 0.8.0
• Byte Size:  13.0 KB (13,302 bytes)
• License: Freely Distributable
• Revision Date: September 27, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: The joystick package enables the use of an analog joystick with your Linux operating system. The package includes the joystick kernel module and utilities for calibrating and testing your joystick. During installation, this package configures your system so that it autoloads the joystick module, using kerneld, when needed.
  

Keepalive

• Version: Stable 0.2
• Byte Size:  9.9 KB (10,157 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 21, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.rome.ocicnet.net/pub/linux/mystuff/
• Description: Keepalive allows a program to keep running, even if it closes. It's useful with programs such as tcpserver. The function of respawning processes is already implemented in "init", but with this program you can start and stop the respawning session when ever you want, not just when you change runlevels.
  

Lde

• Version: Stable 2.4.pre1
• Byte Size:  350.8 KB (359,205 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 3, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7731/lde.html
• Description: LDE is the Linux disk editor, which supports ext2fs, minix, and xiafs. LDE allows you view and edit disk blocks as hex and ascii, as well as view and edit formatted inodes.
  

Lilo

• Version: Stable 0.21
• Byte Size:  165.8 KB (169,791 bytes)
• License: MIT
• Revision Date: September 27, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Lilo is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and giving it control of the system. It can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including the BSD variants, DOS, and OS/2.
  

Limo

• Version: Stable 0.2.1
• Byte Size:  24.9 KB (25,486 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 16, 1999
• Home Page: http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/limo.html
• Description: Limo is a replacement for "ls" with some knobs on. It tries to give far more control over the output format than ls and has simpler and more straightforward (albeit more verbose) options. It is probably most suited to system administrators who need to know file attributes very precisely, and to script writers, who wish to avoid parsing "ls" output, but could be useful to anyone.
  

Linux-lt

• Version: Stable 1.22
• Byte Size:  512.6 KB (524,866 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 5, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/
• Description: Scripts for handling console fonts.
  

Linux95

• Version: Stable 2.23
• Byte Size:  201.5 KB (206,386 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 1, 1998
• Home Page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux
• Additional Software Required: Microsoft Windows 95/98
• Description: If you are like me, you can't escape the big monster known as Windows. Sometimes I have to give in to the seemingly infinite source of software from the Microsoft World. Linux 95 keeps your spirits up by sitting on your desktop in Windows as a cute little icon professing your true OS nature and at a moments notice, and a double click of the mouse, you are home again to romp with the penguins and be rid of the Beast known as Windows WITHOUT rebooting your system.
  

LinuxConf

• Version: Stable 1.17r6
• Byte Size:  2.6 MB (2,744,320 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 6th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
• Binary: Redhat, Slackware
• Description: A utility that allows you to configure everything on your system.
  

LiSt Directory

• Version: Stable 0.01
• Byte Size:  8.2 KB (8,436 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 23, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.ncat.edu/~sully/lsd/
• Description: LiSt Directory (lsd) simply lists files and subdirectories recursively in a list format, which is great for creating file lists for tar, MP3 file lists, and for automatic FTP uploads.
  

lm_sensors

• Version: Stable 2.4.4
• Byte Size:  316.1 KB (323,713 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 2nd, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
• Note: Also Available: Patch for 2.2.13 Kernel
• Description: lm_sensors is an effort to provide some essential tools for monitoring the hardware health of Linux systems containing hardware health monitoring hardware such as the LM78 and LM75 connected via the SMBus (usually found in P6 and P-II systems).
  

Mdate

• Version: Stable 1.0.5
• Byte Size:  132.0 KB (135,168 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 13th, 2000
• Home Page: http://ewe2.cvis.com.au/mdate/
• Description: Mdate is a freely-available command-line mayan date program currently under development. It was implemented from the algorithms published by Dershowitz and Reingold in "Calendrical Calculations", along with some public-domain code. While quite usable, contributors are sought for stabilising the code, internationalisation and porting to other architectures.
  

memtester

• Version: Stable 2.89
• Byte Size:  23.5 KB (24,026 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 16, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/
• Description: memtester is a utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. The original source was by Simon Kirby .
  

mnt

• Version: Stable 1.0.1
• Byte Size:  9.4 KB (9,628 bytes)
• License: Free
• Revision Date: May 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.enetis.net/~irc/
• Description: With mnt you can easily mount and umount removable media and other partitions on your system fast and easy. It eliminates the hassle of typing out the whole mount command, fs-type, and directory every time you want to mount a floppy or CD-ROM.
  

Module Utilities

• Version: Stable 2.3.9
• Byte Size:  176.5 KB (180,779 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 27, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/modutils/v2.3/
• Description: The Linux module utilities - allows for starting and stopping kernel modules.
  

most

• Version: Stable 4.9.0
• Byte Size:  83.7 KB (85,661 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 27, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: most is a paging program that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file on a terminal. It pauses after each windowful and prints on the window status line the screen the file name, current line number, and the percentage of the file so far displayed. Unlike other paging programs, most is capable of displaying an arbitrary number of windows as long as each window occupies at least two screen lines.
  

MPICH

• Version: Stable 1.2.0
• Byte Size:  7.2 MB (7,541,126 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 8, 1999
• Home Page: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: A High-Performance, Portable Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface Standard.
  

MultiMouse

• Version: Stable 1.0
• Byte Size:  16.8 KB (17,231 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: February 22, 1999
• Home Page: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/
• Description: MultiMouse is a utility that allows you to use more than one pointing device under linux.
  

ntpd

• Version: Stable 4.0.99b
• Byte Size:  1.8 MB (1,871,324 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 22th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.ntp.org/
• Description: ntpd is an operating system daemon which sets and maintains the system time-of-day in synchronism with Internet standard time servers.
  

nuni

• Version: Stable 0.04
• Byte Size:  7.0 KB (7,165 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 29, 2000
• Description: nuni is a boot loader for Linux, using ext2 file system and IDE drives. The reason for this particular loader is to avoid bios limitations by not using the bios. For example, there is no 1024 cylinder problem because the concept of cyliders is not used. nuni will load linux from any place on the drive, up to 137gb. Also any drive from hda to hdh can be used.
  

OpenLDAP

• Version: Stable 1.2.7
• Byte Size:  1001.1 KB (1,025,169 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.openldap.org/
• Description: The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and open source LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) suite of applications and development tools
  

passwdd

• Version: Stable 0.10
• Byte Size:  151.9 KB (155,566 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 7, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.serv.net/~strad/Diary/
• Description: passwdd is a client/server packages which allows basic synchronization of password files among different machines. There are Linux server and Linux console clients. With Visual C/C++ you can compile the Windows version of the clients. Perl CGIs are included as well.
  

PCI Utilities

• Version: Stable 2.1.2
• Byte Size:  77.7 KB (79,539 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 12, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/linux/pci/
• Description: This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting of devices connected to the PCI bus. Requires kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (supporting the /proc/bus/pci interface).
  

PicoBoot boot/rescue disk + utilities

• Version: Stable 0.95
• Byte Size:  1.6 MB (1,719,264 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 17, 1997
• Home Page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux
• Description: A boot/rescue disk containing the Pico text edit, GNU bash, color-ls, ext2 defrag, b[un]zip2, and many other goodies. Intended for new users, as well as users who don't particularly like vi, especially under the stress of a system crash.
  

PIPS

• Version: Stable 1.01
• Byte Size:  1.5 MB (1,563,892 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 20th, 2000
• Home Page: http://crab.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~heimes/pips
• Description: PIPS is the Parallel Information Processing System.
  

pnpkit

• Version: Stable 2.10
• Byte Size:  289.6 KB (296,500 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 19, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/
• Description: Plug and Play setup utility.
  

Powertweak-Linux

• Version: Development 0.1.10
• Byte Size:  144.0 KB (147,456 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 13th, 2000
• Home Page: http://linux.powertweak.com/
• Binary: RPM Source
• Description: Powertweak-Linux is a port of the popular MS Windows tool of the same name. It's main function is to perform tuning of system devices to optimal performance settings.
  

Ppower

• Version: Stable 0.1.5
• Byte Size:  124.8 KB (127,819 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 9, 2000
• Home Page: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~swbrown/
• Binary: Source
• Description: Ppower, short for 'Penguin Power', is a piece of software for controlling x10 home automation equipment connected to the computer via a cm11a interface. It can be used to turn things on and off and lights dim and bright. In addition to controlling the x10 devices, it can receive commands sent to the x10 devices from other sources such as an x10 remote transceiver and execute commands on your system in response.
  

psw

• Version: Stable 1.8
• Byte Size:  3.8 KB (3,916 bytes)
• License: OpenSource
• Revision Date: February 27, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.stargrumps.de
• Description: PSW lets you search for any program currently running. It has features like automatic reload, kill-if-found, alarm-if-found, background operation etc. Great for the hard-to-kill applications (sleeping in the background, etc.)
  

PVFS

• Version: Stable 1.4.2
• Byte Size:  762.8 KB (781,100 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 15, 1999
• Home Page: http://ece.clemson.edu/parl/pvfs/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS), an early design of a parallel I/O for dedicated clusters of workstations, Pile-of-PCs, and in particular Beowulf workstations. PVFS provides the following: Compatibility with existing binaries, Ease of installation, User-controlled striping of files across nodes. PVFS supports the UNIX I/O interface and utilizes a shared library which allows existing UNIX I/O programs to use PVFS files without recompiling. The familiar UNIX file tools (ls, cp, rm, etc.) will all operate on PVFS files and directories as well.
  

PVM

• Version: Stable 3.4.2
• Byte Size:  901.7 KB (923,338 bytes)
• License: freely distributable
• Revision Date: September 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/
• Description: PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a portable message-passing programming system, designed to link separate host machines to form a ``virtual machine'' which is a single, manageable computing resource. The virtual machine can be composed of hosts of varying types, in physically remote locations. PVM applications can be composed of any number of separate processes, or components, written in a mixture of C, C++ and Fortran. The system is portable to a wide variety of architectures, including workstations, multiprocessors, supercomputers and PCs.
  

pvmsync

• Version: Development 1.2.4 beta 1
• Byte Size:  85.5 KB (87,593 bytes)
• License: GNU
• Revision Date: March 20th, 2000
• Home Page: http://mis.rowan.edu/~ajp/beowulf/Beta_Release/
• Description: pvmsync is a "distributed operating system" which provides synchronization mechanisms (mutexes, semaphores, and soon condition variables) and shared data (integer, floating point, and a raw block of memory) to processes distributed throughout a beowulf cluster. Made to facilitate communications between processes running on a beowulf cluster in the form of shared data.
  

QDMerge

• Version: Stable 0.54
• Byte Size:  24.0 KB (24,576 bytes)
• License: Artistic
• Revision Date: March 10th, 2000
• Home Page: http://home.rmci.net/bwarden/QDMerge/what.html
• Description: QDMerge is just a Quick and Dirty Perl script that Merges text from a source document with a template to generate a unique output file that follows a specific design.
  

RandType

• Version: Stable 1.8
• Byte Size:  7.0 KB (7,217 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 13, 2000
• Home Page: http://cutlet.linuxbox.com/utilities/
• Description: RandType is a small utility to read either stdin or a text file and display the output, character-by-character, at random intervals. The randomness can be refined on the command line.
  

Rename-Them-All

• Version: Stable 1.061beta
• Byte Size:  47.3 KB (48,461 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 07, 1999
• Home Page: http://ameba.lpt.fi/~ttiilika/rta/
• Description: RTA is a pretty handy program to rename multiple files at once.
  

Rep

• Version: Stable 1.2
• Byte Size:  198.0 bytes (198 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.linuxberg.com/
• Description: Shell script that calls Perl to do a global search and replace.
  

ROMIO

• Version: Stable 1.0.1
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 26, 1999
• Home Page: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/romio/
• Description: a high-performance, portable implementation of MPI-IO optimized for noncontiguous access patterns, which are common in parallel applications. It has an optimized implementation of collective I/O, an important optimization in parallel I/O. ROMIO 1.0.1 includes everything defined in the MPI-2 I/O chapter except shared file pointer functions, split collective data access functions, support for file interoperability, I/O error handling, and I/O error classes.
  

rotfl

• Version: Stable 0.6.4
• Byte Size:  60.9 KB (62,337 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 18, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.bangmoney.org/projects/rotfl/
• Description: rotfl is a simple text formatting language designed to be both easy to use and powerful. It reads from an input file that contains special tags and outputs nicely formatted text. This language is best suited for creating attractive documents, logs, or a sort of notebook for the console.
  

SafeDelete

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  45.3 KB (46,409 bytes)
• License: Distributable
• Revision Date: October 9, 1998
• Description: SafeDelete adds a grace period to the rm command, by saving files to an alternate directory (like a trashcan or recycle bin) before actually removing them. Files in the alternate directory are given new names so multiple files can be saved without worrying about clobbers. The undelete command will restore a file to its original directory along with its original permissions, timestamps, etc. Undelete has both a command line and an ncurses interface (which displays a scrollable list of all the files you can recover). SafeDelete also features a utility which will permanently delete files from the trash as they age.
  

Sarep

• Version: Stable 1.1
• Byte Size:  6.8 KB (6,924 bytes)
• License: BSD
• Revision Date: November 30, 1999
• Home Page: http://tarp.linuxos.org/software/
• Description: SAREP is a command-line search and replace tool written in Perl. It supports regular expressions, multiple file search-and-replace, wildcards, writing out to a new file (rather than overwriting the modified file), and the code is well commented so you can make changes very easily.
  

Scheduler

• Version: Development 0.1.1
• Byte Size:  13.0 KB (13,265 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 12, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.rome.ocicnet.net/pub/linux/mystuff/
• Description: Scheduler is a simplified cron that can be used by any user to execute a specified program at a specific time. Scheduler is simple to use and reliable.
  

senv

• Version: Stable 0.2
• Byte Size:  9.6 KB (9,878 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 2, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.ids.pl/~kodzak/
• Description: Senv allows you to run programs with a specified environment. You're allowed to set uid, gid, root directory, working directory, limits, and environment variables. It is useful in init scripts. You can create sets of configurations and specify the one to use from command line.
  

si

• Version: Stable 0.8
• Byte Size:  40.4 KB (41,363 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://si.netpedia.net/
• Description: si (System Information Viewer) is a Linux application that displays information about the local computer from data gathered from the /proc filesystem, a readable interface to kernel memory. (LAN).
  

SysLinux

• Version: Stable 1.47
• Byte Size:  170.3 KB (174,402 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 21, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
• Description: SysLinux is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created; and requires only a ~ 7K DOS program or ~ 13K Linux program to create in the first place. Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification. (LAN).
  

textutils

• Version: Stable 2.0
• Byte Size:  1.5 MB (1,532,425 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 8, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/textutils/
• Description: The textutils package resembles the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. The programs that can be built with this package are cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, and wc.
  

tpctl

• Version: Stable 0.8.2  /  Development 0.8.5
• Byte Size:  83.1 KB  /  86.6 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 9, 2000
• Home Page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/tpctl/tpctlhome.htm
• Description: tpctl is a package of configuration tools for IBM ThinkPad laptop computers. The main program, also called "tpctl", is a console utility that does some of the things under Linux that PS2.EXE does under DOS and that the ThinkPad Configuration program does under Windows. The tpctl program, along with its ncurses variant ntpctl, provides access to the functionality of the IBM SMAPI BIOS as documented in the IBM ThinkPad Technical Reference manuals. It can thereby control pointing device behavior, video configuration, power management behavior, etc. tpctl can also configure some parallel and serial port resources and display certain information from the CMOS RAM. Check the tpctl homepage for the complete list of capabilities. So far tpctl has been found to work on at least the following ThinkPad models: 365XD, 380D, 380XD, 380Z, 560E, 560X, 570, 600, 600E, 600X, 760E, 760ED, 760XD, 770, 770E, 770ED, 770X, 770Z.
  

util-linux

• Version: Stable 2.10e
• Byte Size:  1.0 MB (1,087,889 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 24, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Miscellaneous must-have utilities for Linux: agetty arch cal cfdisk chfn chkdupexe chsh clear col colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel cytune ddate dmesg fastboot fasthalt fdformat fdisk fsck.minix getopt halt hexdump hwclock ipcrm ipcs kbdrate kill last logger login look mcookie mesg mkfs mkfs.minix mkswap more mount namei passwd ramsize rdev readprofile reboot renice rescuept reset rev rootflags script setfdprm setsid setterm sfdisk shutdown simpleinit sln swapdev swapoff swapon tsort tunelp ul umount vidmode vipw wall whereis write
  

vmscd

• Version: Stable 1.0
• Byte Size:  47.3 KB (48,461 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 19th, 2000
• Home Page: http://perso.club-internet.fr/lelegard/vmscd/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: The vmscd utility reads the contents of any OpenVMS CD-ROM or more generally any ODS-2 disk volume. Using vmscd, the user can navigate on the CD-ROM, list the content of directories, extract files, view the content of OpenVMS text files or convert them into UNIX text format.
  

volcheck

• Version: Stable 1.2
• Byte Size:  29.5 KB (30,255 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 22, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.tildeslash.com/volcheck/
• Description: volcheck is a functional port of the Solaris volcheck program to Linux. The code is written from scratch. By default volcheck will mount any floppy, cdrom or zip-disk found on the system. It's also possible to give the program one of the following arguments, floppy, cdrom or zip, and it will attempt to mount only the indicated media type.
  

which

• Version: Stable 2.9
• Byte Size:  97.3 KB (99,675 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/which/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: which is a utility that prints out the full path of the executables that bash(1) would execute when the passed program names would have been entered on the shell prompt. It does this by using the exact same algorithm as bash. Tildes and a dot in the PATH are now expanded to the full path by default. Options allow to rather print "~/*" or "./*" and/or to print all executables that match any directory in PATH.
  

whichman

• Version: Stable 1.7
• Byte Size:  16.8 KB (17,240 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 18, 1999
• Binary: Source
• Description: whichman uses a fault tolerant approximate matching algorithm to search for man-pages that match approximately the specified name. It can be used to locate the right page in case the man-page is available in several sections. The fault tolerant matching is very useful in cases where you remember only roughly the name of a command. The package contains also a fault tolerant file find utility (ftff) and a fault tolerant version of the "which" command (ftwhich).
  

Wipe

• Version: Stable 1.2.1
• Byte Size:  70.5 KB (72,195 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 13, 2000
• Home Page: http://users.erols.com/thomassr/zero/download/wipe/
• Description: Wipe is a secure file wiping utility. It does not set the media access bit on SCSI commands, therefore it is not 100% secure, unless your drive has no write cache or the write cache is disabled. Wipe should make it extremely difficult for all but the most determined person(s) to recover the original plaintext data.
  

Y2KMatrix

• Version: Stable 1.0.4
• Byte Size:  71.6 KB (73,303 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 22, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.dedserius.com/y2kmatrix/
• Description: Several utilities to help testing Year 2000 issues on Linux/UNIX operating systems. Creates an output file with all dates in the UNIX Epoch (which ends in 2038, the Y2.038K bug?) with Formatted Day of Week and Julian day for comparison against known calendars. A good tool for Year 2000 certification.
  

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