<Description>GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. The C library is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.</Description>
<Description>GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. The C library is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.</Description>
<Description>The PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.</Description>
<Summary>A library for handling page faults in user mode</Summary>
<Description>This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not available.</Description>
<Summary>A library implementing the SSH2 protocol</Summary>
<Description>libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by Internet Drafts: SECSH-TRANS, SECSH-USERAUTH, SECSH-CONNECTION, SECSH-ARCH, SECSH-FILEXFER, SECSH-DHGEX, SECSH-NUMBERS, and SECSH-PUBLICKEY.</Description>
<Description>This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.</Description>
<Summary>A user and group account administration library</Summary>
<Description>libuser implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources.</Description>
<Summary>Helper application and MIME type associations for file types</Summary>
<Description>mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material.</Description>
<Summary>Application to read Linux man pages</Summary>
<Description>Man package consists of programs which is used to read most of the documentation available in linux system. For example, you can write "man nameoftheprogram" into the konsole or "man:nameoftheprogram" into the konqueror to get a detailed usage information for many programs.</Description>
<Description>miscfiles is a collection of data files for freely available information, like airport, country, currencies, city information, and codes. It also includes the Unicode character database.</Description>
<Summary>Another uncompressor for compatibility</Summary>
<Description>The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions). These utilities can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle compressed files.</Description>
<Description>The NCurses is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals. The NCurses library defines many functions such as moving mouse and cursor, keyboard mapping and dispaying in color.</Description>
<Summary>Standard Linux networking tools</Summary>
<Description>net-tools is a collection of programs that form the base set of the networking tools for the Linux operating system. It includes arp, hostname, ifconfig, ipmaddr, iptunnel, mii-tool, nameif, netstat, plipconfig, rarp, route and slattach.</Description>
<Description>Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla client, many of Netscape/AOL/iPlanet's and other software offerings.</Description>
<Summary>Toolkit for SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1</Summary>
<Description>OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards required by them.</Description>
<Description>PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication.</Description>
<Summary>Various utilities dealing with the PCMCIA bus</Summary>
<Description>pcmciautils contains the initialization tools necessary to allow the PCMCIA subsystem to behave as every other hotpluggable bus system.</Description>
<Summary>A Perl module for accessing the GNU locale utilities</Summary>
<Description>The gettext module permits access from Perl to the gettext() family of functions for retrieving message strings from databases constructed to internationalize software.</Description>
<Summary>Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Reporting Language</Summary>
<Description>Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.</Description>
<Summary>Popt command line option parser</Summary>
<Description>The popt library exists essentially for parsing command line options with advantages such as there are no global variables, ability to parse an arbitrary array of argv-style elements, to exec external option filters, and automatic generation of help and usage messages, a standard method of option aliasing.</Description>
<Summary>Standard informational utilities and process-handling tools</Summary>
<Description>procps is the package that has a bunch of small useful utilities that give information about processes using the /proc filesystem. The package includes the programs ps, top, vmstat, w, kill, free, slabtop, and skill.</Description>
<Summary>A set of tools that use the proc filesystem</Summary>
<Description>PSmisc is a collection of small utilities using /proc file system, and providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks.</Description>
<Description>The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.</Description>
<Summary>Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons</Summary>
<Description>rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part, and fine grain output format control. It is quite compatible with stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement.</Description>
<Description>Sulin programs are packaged with small scripts which configures them to entegrate with system and each other. Scom is the tool which manages and executes these scripts.</Description>
<Description>Sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline).</Description>
<Summary>Utilities to deal with user accounts</Summary>
<Description>The Shadow password file utilities package includes programs necessary to convert traditional V7 *NIX password files to the SVR4 shadow password format, and additional tools to maintain password and group files (that work with both shadow and non-shadow passwords).</Description>
<Summary>An SQL Database Engine in a C Library</Summary>
<Description>SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. Supports databases up to 2 terabytes in size.</Description>
<Summary>System Utilities Based on Sysfs</Summary>
<Description>These are a set of utilites built upon sysfs, a new virtual filesystem in Linux kernel versions 2.5+ that exposes a system's device tree.</Description>
<Description>The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.</Description>
<Description>With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other network services. It supports both 4.3BSD-style sockets and System V.4-style TLI.</Description>
<Summary>The GNU info program and utilities</Summary>
<Description>Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.</Description>
<Summary>A GNU utility for monitoring a program's use of system resources</Summary>
<Description>time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.</Description>
<Description>The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function.</Description>
<Description>v86d is a userspace helper that runs x86 code in an emulated environment. It is used by the kernel framebuffer driver uvesafb.</Description>
<Summary>A collection of tools to configure wireless lan cards</Summary>
<Description>The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions, a generic application programming interface allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension.</Description>
<Description>XZ Utils provide a general purpose data compression library and command line tools. The .xz format supports multiple compression algorithms, which are called "filters" in context of XZ Utils. The primary filter is currently LZMA2.</Description>
<Description>Zip is a compression and file packaging/archive utility. Zip is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution, for archiving files, and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories.</Description>