This document contain a categorised list of packages included in the Vinux 2.0 CLI Edition. There are nine main categories and thirty eight sub-categories containing five hundred and sixty eight packages in total. This is not an exhaustive list: there are one thousand three hundred and seventy nine packages on the disk in total, five hundred of which are library files. The packages listed here are the command line applications which perform common desktop functions.
1. Console Tools
a. Accessibility
brltty Access software for a blind person using a braille display
espeak A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
gtypist A simple ncurses touch typing tutor
speakup-modules-2.6.26-2-686 speakup modules for Linux
speakup-source Source of the speakup kernel modules
b. Screen Utilities
away A terminal locking program
conspy Remote control of Linux virtual consoles
dvtm Tiling window management for the console
fbgrab Framebuffer grabber
screenie a small and lightweight GNU screen(1) wrapper
screen terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
scrot command line screen capture utility
splitvt run two programs in a split screen
ttyrec Terminal interaction recorder and player (for tty)
vlock Virtual Console locking program
xvfb Virtual Framebuffer fake' X server
c. Shells
bash The GNU Bourne Again SHell
dash POSIX-compliant shell
ksh The real, AT&T version of the Korn shell
python An interactive high-level object-oriented language
sash Stand-alone shell
zsh A shell with lots of features
2. Editors
a. Emacs
apel portable library for emacsen
artist Emacs Lisp drawing package
dictem Dict client for emacs
edb database program for GNU Emacs
elscreen Screen for Emacsen
emacs-goodies-el Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
emacs The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
emms The Emacs MultiMedia System
erc an IRC client for Emacs
nethack-el Emacs major-mode for playing NetHack
b. Misc Editors
aee An easy to use screen-based editor
diakonos Customizable, usable console-based text editor
e3 A very small editor
ed The classic unix line editor
elvis-console powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (without X11 support)
hexcurse A ncurses-based hex editor with many features
hnb hierarchical notebook
info Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
jed editor for programmers (textmode version)
joe user friendly full screen text editor
less Pager program similar to more
lv Powerful Multilingual File Viewer
most Pager program similar to more and less
nano free Pico clone with some new features
ne Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
tweak an efficient hex editor
vile VI Like Emacs - vi work-alike
wordgrinder a simple word processor that runs in a terminal
zile very small Emacs-subset editor
c. Vim
vim-addon-manager manager of addons for the Vim editor
vim-scripts plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles
vim-tiny Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version
vim Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
3. Entertainment
a. Audio
abcde A Better CD Encoder
alsaplayer-text PCM player designed for ALSA (text version)
beep advanced pc-speaker beeper
bplay Buffered audio file player/recorder
cdda2wav Dummy transition package for icedax
cdparanoia audio extraction tool for sampling CDs
cmus lightweight ncurses audio player
cplay A front-end for various audio players
cutmp3 a small and fast command line MP3 editor
cw Command-line frontend to unixcw
cwcp Ncurses frontend to unixcw
flac Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
icedax Creates WAV files from audio CDs
id3ed Another id3 tag v1 editor
id3v2 A command line id3v2 tag editor
madplay MPEG audio player in fixed point
morse Morse Classic' is a morse-code training program
mp3blaster Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player
mp3c MP3Creator - Creator for MP3/OGG-files
mp3rename Rename mp3 files based on id3tags
mp3report Script to create an HTML report of MP3 files in a directory
mp3splt Splits MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without reencoding
mp3val A program for MPEG audio stream validation
mp3wrap Utility for MP3 wrapping (rolling multiple MP3s into one)
mpg123 MPEG layer 37653 audio player
mpg321 mpg123 clone that doesn't use floating point
normalize-audio adjusts the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files
pmidi A command line midi player for ALSA
vlc-nox multimedia player and streamer (without X support)
vorbis-tools several Ogg Vorbis tools
yatm Command line audio file player with time stretching capabilities
b. Games
angband A single-player, text-based, dungeon simulation game.
asciijump Small and funny ASCII-art game about ski jumping
bsdgames a collection of classic textual unix games
bsdgames-nonfree rogue, the classic dungeon exploration game
crawl Dungeon Crawl, a text-based roguelike game
dosemu The Linux DOS Emulator
empire the war game of the century
fortune-mod provides fortune cookies on demand
freesweep text-based minesweeper
frotz interpreter of Z-code story-files
megahal conversation simulator that can learn as you talk to it
nethack-console Text-based overhead view D&D-style adventure game
nethack-spoilers Spoiler files for the Nethack adventure game
ninvaders A space invaders-like game using ncurses
omega-rpg A text-based roguelike game
sillypoker A poker game
slashem A variant of Nethack
sudoku console based sudoku
tome A single-player, text-based, dungeon simulation game.
zangband A single-player, text-based, roguelike game
c. Graphics
aewan ASCII-art Editor Without A Name
aview A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player
bb ASCII-art demo based on AAlib
boxes Textmode box- and comment drawing filter
caca-utils text mode graphics utilities
cadubi Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian
cmatrix simulates the display from "The Matrix"
cowsay A configurable talking cow
dialog Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
figlet Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters
francine feature rich ansi console login engine
grc generic colouriser for everything
linuxlogo Color ANSI System Logo
tetradraw ANSI drawing and viewing utility
textdraw Tool to draw/modify/move geometric figures & text for ASCII art
ticker configurable text scroller
toilet display large colourful characters in text mode
toilet-fonts collection of TOIlet fonts
tpp text presentation program
welcome2l Linux ANSI boot logo
whiptail Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts
4. Files
a. Archiving Tools
atool A tool for managing file archives of various types
bzip2 high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
cabextract a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
cpio GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files
gzip The GNU compression utility
gzrt gzip recovery toolkit
lzma Compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program
lzop fast compression program
makeself utility to generate self-extractable archives
mscompress Microsoft compress.exe/expand.exe compatible compressor
ncompress Original Lempel-Ziv compress/uncompress programs
p7zip-full 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
p7zip-rar non-free rar module for p7zip
pbzip2 parallel bzip2 implementation
rar Archiver for .rar files
rzip compression program for large files
tar GNU version of the tar archiving utility
unp unpack (almost) everything with one command
unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
unzip De-archiver for .zip files
zip Archiver for .zip files
b. Backup Utilities
backup-manager command-line backup tool
hdup Filesystem duplicator and backup
multicd Backup your data to CD-R/CD-RW
storebackup fancy compressing managing checksumming hard-linking cp
uswsusp tools to use userspace software suspend provided by Linux
c. Burning Tools
cd5 Compute checksum of individual track on CD-ROMS
cdck verifies the quality of written CDs/DVDs
cdrdao records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode
cdrecord Dummy transition package for wodim
cdrskin command line CD/DVD writing tool
cdw Tool for burning CD's - console version
dvdrtools DVD writing program
dvd+rw-tools DVD+-RW/R tools
genisoimage Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images
mkisofs Dummy transition package for genisoimage
mp3roaster A Perl hack for burning audio CDs out of MP3/OGG/FLAC/WAV
mybashburn Burn data and create songs with interactive dialog box
pcopy multithreaded (raw) disk copying program
wodim command line CD/DVD writing tool
d. Conversion Tools
a2ps GNU a2ps - Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer
abiword efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
antiword Converts MS Word files to text and ps
ascii2binary Convert between ASCII, hexadecimal and binary files
atp text to PostScript converter with some C syntax highlighting
catdoc MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
clit Decompiler for Microsoft's .lit ebook format
e2ps Convert plain text into PostScript
gnome-u2ps tool to convert UTF-8 text to PostScript
gnumeric spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program
halibut yet another free document preparation system
html2ps HTML to PostScript converter
html2text advanced HTML to text converter
mtools Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
netpbm Graphics conversion tools
odt2txt simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text
pdf2svg converts PDF documents to SVG files (one per page)
poppler-utils PDF utilitites (based on libpoppler)
pstotext Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
recode Character set conversion utility
tofrodos Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos
txt2html Text to HTML converter
unhtml Remove the markup tags from an HTML file
uni2ascii UTF-8 to 7-bit ASCII and vice versa converter
units converts between different systems of units
wp2x WordPerfect 5.6712962962963e-05 documents to whatever converter
wv Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents
e. File Management
cdargs bookmarks and browsing for the cd command
chase Follow a symlink and print out its target file
clex command line file manager which uses the ncurses library
cruft Find any cruft built up on your system
detox utility to replace problematic characters in filenames
diff File comparison utilities
docdiff Compares two files word by word / char by char
dog Enhanced replacement for cat
fdupes identifies duplicate files within given directories
fhist File history, comparison and merge utilities
file Determines file type using magic numbers
lfm a simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console
limo lists files in a custom way
lsof List open files
makedev creates device files in /dev
mc midnight commander - a powerful file manager
mktemp tool for creating temporary files
mrename A tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files
ncdt Display directory tree
pdmenu simple console menu program
pilot Simple file browser from Alpine, a text-based email client
safe-rm wrapper around the rm command to prevent accidental deletions
sed The GNU sed stream editor
ssed The super sed stream editor
symlinks scan/change symbolic links
trash-cli command line trashcan utility
tree displays directory tree, in color
vfu A versatile text-based filemanager
vifm a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings
wcd saves time typing when you want to change directories
wdiff Compares two files word by word
ytree A file manager for terminals
f. Package Management
alien convert and install rpm and other packages
apt Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-dpkg-ref APT, Dpkg Quick Reference sheet
aptitude terminal-based package manager
apt-utils APT utility programs
configure-debian configuration program for packages using debconf
dctrl-tools Command-line tools to process Debian package information
debconf Debian configuration management system
deborphan program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries
debsums verification of installed package files against MD5 checksums
diffstat produces graph of changes introduced by a diff file
dlocate fast alternative to dpkg -L and dpkg -S
dpatch patch maintenance system for Debian source packages
dpkg-awk Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available}
dpkg Debian package management system
dpkg-dev Debian package development tools
dpkg-ftp Ftp method for dselect
dpkg-multicd Installation methods for multiple binary CDs
dpkg-repack puts an unpacked .deb file back together
dselect Debian package management front-end
patch Apply a diff file to an original
patchutils Utilities to work with patches
popularity-contest Vote for your favourite packages automatically
reportbug reports bugs in the Debian distribution
reprepro Debian package repository producer
rpm2html Generate HTML index from directories of RPMs
rpm Red Hat package manager
smxi advanced update, upgrade and installation manager
subversion Advanced version control system
tasksel Tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems
ucf Update Configuration File: preserve user changes to config files
vrms virtual Richard M. Stallman
wajig simplified Debian package management front end
g. Remastering and Installation Tools
cdebootstrap Bootstrap a Debian system
debian-cd Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set
debootstrap Bootstrap a basic Debian system
dfsbuild Build Debian From Scratch CD/DVD images
remastersys Debian system remaster
remastersys-installer install live CD to disk
simple-cdd create custom debian-installer CDs
h. Search Utilities
agrep text search tool with support for approximate patterns
findutils utilities for finding files--find, xargs
gawk GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
grep GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
locate maintain and query an index of a directory tree
lookup interactive utility to search text files quickly
mawk a pattern scanning and text processing language
mlocate quickly find files on the filesystem based on their name
rpl intelligent recursive search/replace utility
sfind improved version of the find utility
sgrep tool to search a file for structured pattern
strigi-utils command-line tools for Strigi Desktop Search
whichman Fault tolerant search utilities: whichman, ftff, ftwhich
5. Hardware
a. Ethernet Drivers
atl2-modules-2.6.26-2-686 Atheros L2 Ethernet Adapter driver for Linux
atl2-source Linux Base Driver for the Atheros(R) L2 Fast Ethernet Adapter
bcm5700-source module source for Broadcom's bcm5700 ethernet driver
et131x-modules-2.6.26-2-686 et131x Ethernet Adapter driver for Linux
et131x-source Source for et131x Ethernet Controller driver from Agere
b. Misc Tools
acpitool command line ACPI client
cpufrequtils utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature
cpulimit limits the cpu usage of a process
discover hardware identification system
eject ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux
gpm General Purpose Mouse interface
hdparm tune hard disk parameters for high performance
hibernate smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or disk)
hwdata hardware identification / configuration data
joystick set of testing and calibration tools for joysticks
lm-sensors utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
lshw information about hardware configuration
memtest86 thorough real-mode memory tester
memtest86+ thorough real-mode memory tester
nvclock Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux
pciutils Linux PCI Utilities
pm-utils utilities and scripts for power management
sdparm Output and modify SCSI device parameters
sensord hardware sensor information logging daemon
setcd Control the behaviour of your cdrom device
tpconfig configure touchpad devices
x86info Display diagnostic information about i386 compatible CPUs
c. Laptop Utilities
laptop-detect attempt to detect a laptop
laptop-mode-tools Scripts to spin down hard drive and save power
laptop-net Automatically adapt laptop Ethernet
powertop Linux tool to find out what is using power on a laptop
radeontool utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on laptops
spicctrl Sony Vaio controller program to set LCD backlight brightness
toshset Access much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface
whereami Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location
d. Partitioning Tools
cramfsprogs Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM File System)
disktype detection of content format of a disk or disk image
dosfstools utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
e2fsprogs ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities
e2tools utilities for manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem
fatresize FAT16/FAT32 filesystem resizer
fatsort utility for sorting FAT directory structures
gnu-fdisk Linux fdisk replacement based on libparted
gpart Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
hfsplus Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes
hfsprogs mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
hfsutils Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes
mountpy script for quick mounting of removable devices
mount Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
ntfs-3g read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
ntfsprogs tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from Linux
os-prober utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
parted The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
partimage backup partitions into a compressed image file
reiserfsprogs User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
sdd File duplication and conversion tool, similar to dd'
sformat SCSI disk format and repair tool
c. Printer Utilities
cups Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
djtools Tools for HP DeskJet printer
ink tool for checking the ink level of your local printer
lpr BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
mpage print multiple pages per sheet on PostScript printer
pconf-detect Small printer auto-detect command-line tool
poster Create large posters out of PostScript pages
psutils A collection of PostScript document handling utilities
system-config-printer graphical interface to configure the printing system
d. Wireless Drivers
acerhk-source Source for the acerhk driver
acx100-source ACX100/ACX111 wireless network drivers source
atmel-firmware Firmware for Atmel at76c50x wireless networking chips.
firmware-bnx2 Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
firmware-bnx2x Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII 10Gb
firmware-ipw2x00 Binary firmware for Intel Pro Wireless 2100, 2200 + 2915
firmware-iwlwifi Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945 and 4965
firmware-linux Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-ralink Binary firmware for Ralink RT2561, RT2571, RT2661/71
linux-wlan-ng-firmware firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng driver
linux-wlan-ng-source linux-wlan-ng driver
linux-wlan-ng utilities for wireless prism2 cards
madwifi-source source for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
madwifi-tools tools for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
rt2400-source source for rt2400 wireless network driver
rt2500-source source for rt2500 wireless network driver
rt2570-source source for rt2570 wireless network driver
rt73-common RT73(RT2571W) Wireless Lan Linux Driver - common files
rt73-modules-2.6.26-2-686 Driver for Ralink RT73 wireless network card
rt73-source RT73(RT2571W) Wireless Lan Linux Driver - kernel module
wpasupplicant Client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
6. Information
a. Database Utilities
gadfly Server and interactive shell for Gadfly SQL database
nosql a Relational Database Management System for Unix
sqlite command line interface for SQLite
b. Dictionaries and Thesaurusi
aiksaurus an English-language thesaurus (utility)
aspell-en English dictionary for GNU Aspell
aspell GNU Aspell spell-checker
dictd Dictionary Server
dict-devil The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
dict Dictionary Client
dict-elements Data regarding the Elements
dictfmt Utility to format a file for use by the dictd server
dict-foldoc FOLDOC dictionary database
dict-gcide A Comprehensive English Dictionary
dict-jargon Jargon File 38081
dict-vera Dictionary of computer related acronyms -- dict format
dict-wn electronic lexical database of English language for dict
iamerican An American English dictionary for ispell
ibritish A British English dictionary for ispell
ispell International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)
link-grammar-dictionaries-en Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar
myspell-en-us English_american dictionary for myspell
vera Dictionary of computer related acronyms -- info format
wamerican American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
wbritish British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
c. Documentation
abs-guide The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
anarchism An exhaustive exploration of Anarchist theory and practice
angband-doc Documentation for the roguelike game Angband.
aptitude-doc-en English manual for aptitude, a package manager
ascii interactive ASCII name and synonym chart
asr-manpages alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages
backup-manager-doc documentation package for Backup Manager
bash-doc Documentation and examples for The GNU Bourne Again SHell
cfi-en Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture
clamav-docs anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation
debconf-doc debconf documentation
debian-faq The Debian FAQ
debian-history A Short History of the Debian Project
debian-reference-en Debian system administration guide, English original
doc-debian Debian Project documentation and other documents
doc-linux-nonfree-text Linux HOWTOs in ASCII format (non-free)
doc-linux-text Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format
elinks-doc advanced text-mode WWW browser - documentation
fortunes-debian-hints Debian Hints for fortune
funny-manpages more funny manpages
jargon-text The definitive compendium of hacker slang
jargon the definitive compendium of hacker slang
linux-wlan-ng-doc documentation for wlan-ng
man-db on-line manual pager
manpages Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
miscfiles Dictionaries and other interesting files
newbiedoc Debian for newbies by newbies (and not-so-newbies)
parted-doc The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program documentation
partimage-doc Partition Image User Documentation
perl-doc Perl documentation
rutebook Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, an online book
speakup-doc Documentation for speakup kernel modules
sysadmin-guide The Linux System Administrators' Guide
tar-doc documentation for the tar package
vim-doc Vi IMproved - HTML documentation
zsh-doc zsh documentation - info/HTML format
d. Maths Utilities
bc The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
concalc console calculator
dc The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator
sc Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings
wcalc A flexible command-line scientific calculator
e. Monitoring Tools
atop Monitor for system resources and process activity
atsar system activity reporter
di advanced df like disk information utility
discus pretty version of df(1) command
fam File Alteration Monitor
gt5 shell program to display visual disk usage with navigation
hddtemp hard drive temperature monitoring utility
htop interactive processes viewer
iftop displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface
iotop simple top-like I/O monitor
iptraf Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor
linuxinfo Displays extended system information
memstat Identify what's using up virtual memory
ncdu ncurses disk usage viewer
nload A realtime console network usage monitor
procinfo Displays system information from /proc
pydf colourised df(1)-clone
time The GNU time program for measuring cpu resource usage
xtail like "tail -f" but works on truncated files, directories, more
yacpi ncurses based acpi monitor for text mode
7. Internet
a. Browsers
elinks advanced text-mode WWW browser
links Web browser running in text mode
lynx-cur Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS support (development version)
lynx Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package)
netrik text mode WWW browser with vi like keybindings
newsbeuter text mode rss feed reader with podcast support
nrss A ncurses-based RSS reader
snownews Text mode RSS newsreader
urlview Extracts URLs from text
w3m WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
b. Chat
finch text-based multi-protocol instant messaging client
irssi terminal based IRC client
linphone-nox SIP softphone - console-only client
naim A console client for AOL Instant Messenger and IRC
weechat-curses Fast, light and extensible IRC client
c. Download Managers
aria2 High speed download utility
axel light download accelerator - console version
bittorrent Original BitTorent client - console tools
clive Video extraction utility for YouTube, Google Video and other videos
ctorrent BitTorrent Client written in C++
curl Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
ftp The FTP client
hpodder Tool to scan and download podcasts (podcatcher)
ncftp A user-friendly and well-featured FTP client
podracer podcast aggregator/downloader
rtorrent ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent
wget retrieves files from the web
d. E-Mail
alpine Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful
bsd-mailx A simple mail user agent
cone COnsole Newsreader and Emailer
elmo text-based mail-reader supporting SMTP and POP3
mutt text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
procmail Versatile e-mail processor
e. Network Tools
bluez-utils Bluetooth tools and daemons
cnetworkmanager command line interface for network manager
giftcurs text-based interface to the giFT file-sharing system
hostname utility to set/show the host name or domain name
ifupdown high level tools to configure network interfaces
iproute networking and traffic control tools
netcat-traditional TCP/IP swiss army knife
network-manager network management framework daemon
openbsd-inetd The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
openssh-client secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement
openssh-server secure shell server, an rshd replacement
rsync fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
samba a LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix
smbclient a LanManager-like simple client for Unix
smbc samba-commander - curses based samba network browser
ssh secure shell client and server (metapackage)
telnet The telnet client
traceroute Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
vpnc Cisco-compatible VPN client
whois an intelligent whois client
wireless-tools Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
8. Security
a. Forensic and Recovery Tool
autopsy graphical interface to SleuthKit
dares rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs (ncurses-interface)
dcfldd enhanced version of dd for forensics and security
ext3grep Tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 filesystems
foremost Forensics application to recover data
magicrescue recovers files by looking for magic bytes
myrescue rescue data from damaged harddisks
rdd a forensic copy program
recoverjpeg Recover jpeg pictures from a filesystem image
recover Undelete files on ext2 partitions
scalpel A Frugal, High Performance File Carver
scrounge-ntfs Data recovery program for NTFS filesystems
secure-delete tools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memory
sleuthkit Tools for forensics analysis
testdisk Partition scanner and disk recovery tool
wipe Secure file deletion
b. User Management
adduser add and remove users and groups
calife Provides super user privileges to specific users
fakeroot Gives a fake root environment
finger user information lookup program
john active password cracking tool
makepasswd Generate and encrypt passwords
passwd change and administer password and group data
pwgen Automatic Password generation
rig Random identity generator
sudo Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
user-setup Set up initial user and password
c. Anti-Virus and Encryption
ccrypt secure encryption and decryption of files and streams
chkrootkit rootkit detector
clamav anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface
clamav-freshclam anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database update utility
clamfs An user-space anti-virus protected file system
fileschanged command-line utility that reports when files have been altered
iptables administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
mcrypt Replacement for old unix crypt(1)
tiger Report system security vulnerabilities
9. Time
a. Calendar Utilities
abook text-based ncurses address book application
birthday Display information about pending events on login
calcurse text-based calendar and todo manager
ccal Colorised calendar utility
devtodo hierarchical, prioritised todo list manager
gcalcli Google Calendar Command Line Interface
gcal Prints calendars
hodie prints the date in latin
leave Reminds you when you have to leave
note small program managing notes from commandline
pal command-line calendar program that can keep track of events
pcal generate Postscript calendars without X
remind a sophisticated reminder service
tdl To-do list manager
tina A curses personal information manager.
tudu Command line hierarchical ToDo list
when tiny personal calendar
worklog Keep Track of Time worked on Projects
wyrd text-based calendar applicatio
b. Scheduling Tools
anacron cron-like program that doesn't go by time
and Auto Nice Daemon
at Delayed job execution and batch processing
cron management of regular background processing
loadwatch Run a program using only idle cycles
rcconf Debian Runlevel configuration tool
sysv-rc-conf SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal
timeout Run a command with a time limit.
