Linux and Unix Resources

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Linux Pacakges List and sources:

Group Applications/System

855resolution: Change video bios resolutions on laptops with Intel graphic chipsets
afick: File integrity checker
aide: Advanced intrusion detection environment
alphapplet: Tray applet for displaying phonetic alphabets
atop: AT Computing System and Process Monitor
autoupdate: AutoUpdate, a simple perl script to keep your system up2date
bluez-bluefw: Bluetooth firmware loader
bluez-utils: Bluetooth utilities
bonnie++: Benchmark suite for hard drive and file system performance
cacti: Complete network graphing solution designed on top of RRDTool
cacti-cactid: Fast c-based poller for the cacti graphing solution
checkinstall: CheckInstall installations tracker
chkrootkit: Check locally for signs of a rootkit
chntpw: Offline NT password and registry editor
clamav: Anti-virus software
cog: Advanced GNOME configuration editor
compface: Programs for 48x48x1 image compression and decompression
ddrescue: Data recovery tool
dd_rescue: Fault tolerant "dd" utility for rescueing data from bad media
diradmin: User control management tool for LDAP directories
drwright: Tool to remind you to take wrist breaks
dvorak7min: Dvorak typing tutor
elf: Simple ELF header analyzer
emu-tools: Tools for configuring and controlling emu10k1 based soundcards
epylog: Log analyzer and parser
etherape: Graphical network viewer modeled after etherman
filelight: Graphical disk usage statistics
filelight: Graphical disk usage statistics
fpm: Figaro's password manager
fwlogwatch: Firewall log analyzer, report generator and realtime response agent
g4u: Harddisk image cloning tool
gcipher: Simple encryption tool
gcm: GNOME Clipboard Manager
gkrellm: Multiple stacked system monitors that take up only 1 process.
gkrellm-plugins: Some neat plugins for GKrellM
gkrellm-themes: Some themes for the GNU Krell Monitor
gnomba: GNOME Samba Browser
gnome-crontab: graphical interface to the crontab program
gnome-password-generator: Graphical secure password generator
gnome-pkgview: Tool for determining versions of installed GNOME packages
gnome-sensors: Monitors hardware sensors
gpa: Graphical user interface for the GnuPG
gpa: Graphical user interface for the GnuPG
gpart: Guesses and recovers a damaged MBR (Master Boot Record)
gpgme: GnuPG Made Easy
gpgme03: GnuPG Made Easy
gqueue: Graphical frontend for lpq and lprm working with Cups queues
greenwich: Graphical whois client
grepmail: Search for emails in a mailbox using regular expressions
gribouy: Graphical Type1 font editor
gucharmap: Unicode/ISO10646 character map and font viewer
hardinfo: Displays information about your hardware and operating system
hardlink: Tool to hardlink duplicate files in a directory tree
hddtemp: Display the temperature of harddisks
htop: Interactive process viewer
ifinfo: Commandline network inquiry/formatting tool
iftop: Display bandwidth usage on an interface
iometer: I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool
iozone: IOzone Filesystem Benchmark
ipcalc: IP subnet calculator
ipsc: IP Subnet Calculator
iptraf: A console-based network monitoring utility.
iptstate: Display IP Tables state table information in a "top"-like interface
ipvsadm: Utility to administer the Linux Virtual Server
john: John the Ripper password cracker
kbbtray: Display the status of a Big Brother page in the system tray
keepalived: HA monitor built upon LVS, VRRP and services poller
lbe: Excellent LDAP browser and editor
lde: Console-based disk editor
libgpg-error: Library with GPG related error codes and descriptions
linux_logo: The linux logo - a colorful console penguin logo
logrpminstalls: Creates a log with timestamps of every install of an rpm
logwatch: A log file analysis program.
lshw: Hardware lister
mach: Make a chroot
mach: Make A CHroot
memfetch: Dump the memory of a running process.
memget: Save memory content for forensic analysis
ms-sys: Create DOS/MS-compatible boot records
mtools: Programs for accessing MS-DOS disks without mounting the disks.
multires: Allows changing of desktop resolution and refresh rate
nagios: Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
nagios: Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
nagios: Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
nagios: Open Source host, service and network monitoring program
nagios-plugins: Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios
nget: Command line NNTP file grabber
nmap: Network exploration tool and security scanner
nmbscan: NMB/SMB network scanner
nrh-up2date: Open Source server for Redhat's up2date suite
nsc: Console monitor for Nagios
ntop: Network traffic probe that shows the network usage
op: Allows restricted root access for specified users
partimage: partition imaging utility, much like Ghost
partimage: partition imaging utility, much like Ghost
peeper: Tool to magnify parts of your screen
pfqueue: Queue manager for the Postfix mail transport agent
pinentry: PIN or passphrase entry dialog
pmem: Process Memory Information
portsentry: Port scan detection and active defense
powertweak: Tune system to optimal performance
pport: Utility for accessing the output pins of a parallel port
procget: Save proc filesystem content for forensic analysis
progsreiserfs: Programs and libs needed for manipulating reiserfs partitions
proxy-applet: Tray applet for changing network proxy configuration
publimark: Tool to secretly embed text in an audio file
qtparted: Graphical frontend for parted
repoview: Create static HTML pages of a yum repository
rpcmgr: DVD RPC (Region Playback Control) tool
rpm2html: Translates an RPM database and dependency information into HTML
rpm2html: Translates an RPM database and dependency information into HTML
rpm-analyzer: Graphical interface for RPM analyze
rpmrebuild: Build new RPM packages from an old installed package
rsnapshot: Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility
run: Control process scheduler attributres and CPU affinity
smart: Next generation package handling tool
stress: tool to impose stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system
sudosh: Logged root shell that can be used for auditing
switcher: Tray applet for dynamically changing the XFree86 display mode
synaptic: Graphical package management program using apt
syslinux: A simple kernel loader which boots from a FAT filesystem.
tiobench: Threaded IO benchmarking utility
tpb: Utility to enable the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys
tp-scroll: IBM Trackpoint scroll-wheel emulation
twin: Textmode windowing environment
uberkey: Keylogger
udpcast: UDP broadcast installation
unfs3: UNFS3 user-space NFSv3 server
vbetool: Real-mode video BIOS utility to alter hardware state
viewglob: Current tree visualisation add-on for Bash and Zsh and also shows glob patterns.
vnstat: Console-based network traffic monitor
waitfor: waits until specified network resource is available or event has occured
whowatch: Display information about users currently logged on users
workrave: Tool to recover from or prevent Repetitive Strain Injury
xdialog: X11 drop in replacement for cdialog
xosview: An X Window System utility for monitoring system resources.
xrestop: X resource monitor
zenity: Display GNOME dialogs from the command line

Source: http://rpmforge.net

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