ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of
the well-known 'du', and provides a fast way to see what
directories are using your disk space.

GNU Parted is a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking,
and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.

Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All
threads run in the same address space of the server application, but
each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time stack,
signal mask and errno variable.

Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
It includes the following features:

* A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent
handling of exceptions and holidays.
* Plain-text, PostScript and HTML output.
* Timed reminders and pop-up alarms.
* A friendly graphical front-end for people who don't
want to learn the scripting language.
* Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
* Support for 12 different languages.

This package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities
that are necessary for a Linux system to function. It contains the
mount program, the fdisk configuration tool, and more.

This is a new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch by Marco
d'Itri. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE
whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the
appropriate whois server for most queries. This package also contains
mkpasswd, a simple front-end to crypt(3).

Wyrd is a text-based front-end to Remind, a sophisticated calendar and alarm
program. Remind's power lies in its programmability, and Wyrd does not hide
this capability behind flashy GUI dialogs. Rather, Wyrd is designed to make you
more efficient at editing your reminder files directly. It also offers a
scrollable timetable suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance.

Unlike most of the calendar applications available today, Wyrd is designed to
be both lightweight and fast. Startup time is negligible, UI navigation is
instantaneous, and the wyrd process typically consumes less than 2MB of
resident memory.

ack is a grep-like tool tailored to working with large trees of source code.

adns includes a collection of useful DNS resolver utilities.

Calcurse is a text-based personal organizer which helps keep track of events
and everyday tasks. It has a calendar and a "todo" list, and puts your
appointments in order. The user interface is configurable, and you can choose
between different color schemes and layouts. All of the commands are
documented within an online help system.

ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up recompilation by caching the result of
previous compilations and detecting when the same compilation is being done
again. Supported languages are C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++.

CGDB is a curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB). Its goal
is to be lightweight and responsive; not encumbered with unnecessary features.

The primary feature of CGDB is the constant presence of a source display,
updated as the program executes, to help keep you focused while debugging. The
interface is inspired by the classic Unix text editor, vi. Those familiar with
vi (or vim) should feel right at home using CGDB.

Cscope is an interactive, screen-oriented tool that allows the user to
browse through C source code files for specified elements of code.

CTags (from Darren Hiebert) generates tag files from source code in C,
C++, Eiffel, Fortran, and Java to be used with vi and its derivatives,
Emacs, and several other editors.

ETags (from GNU Emacs sources) generates tag files from source code in
Pascal, Cobol, Ada, Perl, LaTeX, Scheme, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp,
Postscript, Erlang, Python, Prolog, and most assembler-like syntaxes.

Diet libc is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small
statically-linked binaries for Linux on many platforms.

Tool for debugging your C programs (malloc debugger).

Ethtool is a small utility for examining and tuning ethernet-based
network interfaces. See the man page for more details.

Expat is an XML 1.0 parser written in C. It aims to be fully
conformant. It is currently not a validating XML processor. The current
production version of expat can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip. The directory xmltok contains a
low-level library for tokenizing XML. The interface is documented in
xmltok/xmltok.h. The directory xmlparse contains an XML parser library
that is built on top of the xmltok library. The interface is documented
in xmlparse/xmlparse.h. The directory sample contains a simple example
program using this interface. The file sample/build.bat is a batch
file to build the example using Visual C++. The directory xmlwf
contains the xmlwf application, which uses the xmlparse library. The
arguments to xmlwf are one or more files to check for well-formedness.
An option -d dir can be specified. For each well-formed input file, the
corresponding canonical XML is written to dir/f, where f is the
filename (without any path) of the input file. A -x option causes
references to external general entities to be processed. A -s option
makes documents that are not stand-alone cause an error (a document is
considered stand-alone if it is intrinsically stand-alone because it
has no external subset and no references to parameter entities in the
internal subset or it is declared as stand-alone in the XML
declaration).

A tool to investigate an ext3 file system for deleted content and possibly recover it.

Also see http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html

FBSet can query and change console framebuffer settings.

Some framebuffers do not support this, such as the VESA framebuffer
"vesafb".

Fortune displays a random text string from a set of files in a certain
format.

This occurs each time you start a login shell. To get this feature just
uncomment the respective lines in the user's .profile.

FPing is a ping-like program that uses the Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is
responding. FPing differs from ping in that you can specify any number
of targets on the command line or specify a file containing a list of
targets to ping. Instead of sending pings to one target until it times
out or replies, FPing sends a ping packet and moves on to the next
target in a round-robin fashion.

In the default mode, if a target replies, it is noted and removed from
the list of targets to check. If a target does not respond within a
certain time limit or retry limit, it is designated as unreachable.
FPing also supports sending a specified number of pings to a target or
looping indefinitely (as in ping).

Unlike ping, FPing is meant to be used in scripts. Its output is
designed to be easy to parse.

This program generates a C function that uses getopt_long function to parse the
command line options, to validate them and fills a struct.

Thus your program can now handle options such as:
myprog --input foo.c -o foo.o --no-tabs -i 100 *.class

Both long options (those that start with --) and short options (start with -
and consist of only one character) can be handled.

Authors:
--------
Roberto Arturo Tena Sanchez
Lorenzo Bettini

GLOBAL is a common source code tag system for C, C++, Yacc, and Java.
You can locate the specified function in source files and move there
easily. It is useful to hack a large project containing many
subdirectories or many main() functions like MH, X, or Linux kernel.

Gpart is a small tool that tries to guess what partitions are on a PC
type hard disk in case the primary partition table was damaged. Gpart
supports, among others, partitions formatted as ext2, FAT 12/16/32,
ReiserFS, NTFS, and HPFS. Read the file
/usr/share/doc/packages/gpart/README and the gpart man page before
using gpart.