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Drivers and Modules

Emulators

  • Atari800 Emulator 
  • Bochs - a portable X86 emulator for X Window systems
  • DOSEmu - a DOS emulator for Linux 
  • Euphoric - an Oric emulator/simulator for Linux 
  • Executor - a commercial Macintosh emulator by ARDI 
  • SimICS - an environment for booting and running unmodified Linux 2.0.30 binaries on a SPARC SMP simulator (SunOS 5.x)
  • Snes9x - a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator 
  • Spectemu - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux/UNIX 
  • Stella - a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator 
  • UAE - The Un*x Amiga Emulator 
  • VICE - The Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator 
  • Wine - a free implementation of Windows on Unix 
  • Virtual 2600 - an emulation of the Atari 2600 game console that currently runs on UN*X/X11, SVGAlib and DOS 
  • Caldera Wabi for Linux - application that enables you to run Microsoft Windows applications on several Linux operating environments that use the X Window System 
  • xz80 - an ZX Spectrum emulator 
  • XZX - an X11-based portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128/+3 8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair 

Shells

  • bash - GNU "Bourne Again SHell" is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh) 
  • Es - a shell with higher-order functions 
  • lsh - a little shell for Linux 
  • csh & tcsh - tcsh is a C shell (csh) with file name completion and command line editing 
  • Zsh - a shell combining features of other shells and added some new 

Utilities

  • alien - a program that converts packages between the rpm, dpkg, and slackware tgz file formats 
  • ACUA - a software package designed to facilitate the administration of user accounts and the enforcement of access restrictions on a Linux or *BSD system 
  • AFdisk - an FDisk for Amiga RDB harddisks 
  • apsfilter - a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD-like printing mechanism 
  • AutoRPM - a combination of mirroring RPMs from an FTP site, keeping installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site or local directory, and keepping installed RPMs in a cluster or network of systems consistent
  • bchunk - BinChunker for Unix converts a CD image in a ".bin / .cue" format (sometimes ".raw / .cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks 
  • Binstats - an administration utility for tracking down the various types of binary formats for Linux (i386) executables and their dynamic library dependencies 
  • bras - another kind of 'make' 
  • bzip2 - a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor 
  • CDM - a CDROM Mastering/Mirroring utility using the NCurses interface 
  • cdparanoia - a super-robust audio CD reader (cdda2wav rewrite) for Linux 
  • cdr - Create/Duplicate/Rip is a Perl program that uses dialog to provide an ncurses frontend for ripping audio and encoding MP3s 
  • CDRDAO - records audio CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents 
  • cdrecord - a program for creating single/multi session CD-R's on a SunOS/Solaris/Linux (use with mkisofs) 
  • check-ps - a program that is designed to detect rootkit versions of ps that fail to tell you about selected processes 
  • Chklogs - maintenance on all the system logs 
  • Clobberd - allows ISP's or any Linux/Unix operator to regulate their users 
  • clock - a new clock program which works better on Alpha Machines 
  • Clustor - a task crunching utility 
  • COAS - Caldera Open Administration System 
  • dbanner - yet, another banner 
  • Defrag - a defragmenter for ext2 under Linux 
  • Explore2fs - an NT/Windows95 explorer for Linux ex2fs partitions 
  • EXT2ED - an EXT2 File System Editor 
  • Fdutils - utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a high density disk) 
  • Flpr - a Perl script that unifies the usage of several other programs used for printing 
  • Fontprint - a program allows you to print a text file to the printer using standard Linux console fonts (and vga fonts) 
  • fsplit & fmerge - utilities to split a large binary file into smaller pieces and merge them together 
  • ftape-tools - a collection of more or less useful utilities for ftape 
  • GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader 
  • gzip - (GNU zip) is a data compression program 
  • HP PPA - Linux/Unix support for HP PPA printers 
  • Im_sensors - tools for monitoring the hardware health of Linux 
  • IMWheel - a program to use that good ole Microsoft Intellimouse Wheel under XFree on linux (others as well, including 4+ button mice!) 
  • Info-ZIP - to provide free versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities 
  • ISAPNPTOOLS - a set of programs and for configuring ISA Plug-and-Play cards 
  • Jaz Tool for Linux - a program that supports software ejection and the hardware read/write protection 
  • jslaunch - a very small daemon/program that will start a specified shell command when a combination of joystick buttons is pressed 
  • juju/juen - an encoder/decoder for uu-, base64-, binhex- or xxencoded data 
  • kcd - a directory change utility 
  • Kim - an interactive (ncurses) user friendly process manager 
  • Laserprt - a Two Column Laser Printer Utility 
  • LDE - a disk editor for Minix/Linux partitions
  • Lilo-colors - a patch which allows lilo to display a fancy color bootmessage 
  • Linux and Advanced Power Management 
  • Linuxconf - a sophisticated administration system for the Linux operating system 
  • Linux Console Tools - a replacement for kdb 
  • LinuxInfo - a program that displays the type of processor, system library version, and version of Linux kernel in use 
  • Linux Logo - a nifty color ANSI Logo and system info printer 
  • Linux-PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux 
  • LogWatch - a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system
  • lprMagic - an lpr Universal Filter for Linux
  • LZOP - a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip based on the LZO library 
  • memstat - a utility to display memory statistics 
  • mkhybrid - make an ISO9660/HFS/JOLIET shared hybrid CD volume
  • mon - a general-purpose resource monitoring system 
  • morepkgtools - Package and System administration Tools for Slackware Linux 
  • Mtools - a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them 
  • MultiWM - an interactive bash-script to choose right window manager before starting X Window System 
  • opt_depot - a suite of Perl scripts which makes it easy to manage installed software across a wide range of client systems. 
  • Pathmaker - a simple software packaging tool 
  • Pdmenu - a character based full screen menuing system 
  • PKG - PacKaGer - a packaging system compatible with RPM 
  • Power Boot - a utility to boot from different partitions 
  • ProcessExplorer - a proof-of-concept process viewer for Linux written in Java/C++, using the Java Foundation Classes UI controls 
  • Procinfo - a tool for displaying diverse system information as can be found under the /proc filesystem 
  • procps for Linux Clusters - a patched version of procps to allow monitoring of linux clusters 
  • psntools - a set of utilities specifically designed for easily administering large numbers of user accounts at medium sized sites 
  • PURP - a ncurses-based RPM-handler  
  • rot13 - takes an input file and encodes it using the ROT13 cipher 
  • RPM - a Software Packaging Tool 
  • Secure locate - a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system 
  • Sendkey daemon - allow any program to simulate keyboard keystroke using fifo file 
  • set6x86 - a utility to set/reset 6x86 performance features 
  • sdd - a fast and enhanced 'dd' replacement for UNIX 
  • sformat - a program to format/analyze/repay SCSI hard disks on a SunOS/Solaris/Linux 
  • Smart UPS Tools - allows multiple systems to monitor a single APC Smart UPS and shut down when conditions warrant
  • SOLO - a boot loader for Shag/OS, Linux, and other PC OS's 
  • star - a very fast and POSIX 1003.1 conformant tar implementation 
  • SumLog - a system tool written in Python to parse system log files and generate summary reports 
  • SVGATextMode - an SVGA textmode manipulation/enhancement tool 
  • System Commander - Eliminate all the guesswork from adding and using up to 100 OSes on one PC. 
  • tidylinks - a shell script which searches for stale symbolic links and optionally removes or modifies them 
  • tuneps - a tool to set up the resolution and sampling rate of PS/2 pointing devices 
  • Undelete Utilities - provide undelete capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem in Linux 
  • unRAR - lets you view, test and extract RAR archives 
  • upgraded - a script that will notify its user when Linux PD software is released 
  • UPS Software Solutions for Linux - an UPS monitoring and automatic shutdown software for use with Fenton uninterruptible power supplies
  • UUDeview - the nice and friendly uudecoder 
  • uwatch - a program designed to inform you when users log in or out of a system 
  • wcd - a powerful directory changer for DOS and Unix 
  • XDelta - a binary delta generator
  • Xnew - a set of tools for allowing users to request and perhaps create accounts on a system 
  • Yard - a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks (also called bootdisks) for Linux 
  • ZipCracker - will try to find the correct password for a given file in a zip archive, by using the Brute force method (TM) 
  • ZipTool - a utility to manage ZIP disks 

Miscellaneous

 
 
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