Base
This group includes a minimal set of packages. Useful for creating small router/firewall boxes, for example.
- acpid - ACPI Event Daemon
- bridge-utils - Utilities for configuring the linux ethernet bridge
- cifs-utils - Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
- di - Disk Information utility
- ed - The GNU line editor
- ethtool - Settings tool for Ethernet NICs
- finger - The finger client
- fping - Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility
- ftp - The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client
- gnupg2 - Utility for secure communication and data storage
- gpm - A mouse server for the Linux console
- initscripts-sysvinit - El archivo inittab y los scripts /etc/init.d
- irqbalance - IRQ balancing daemon
- jfsutils - Utilities for managing the JFS filesystem
- kernel-tools - Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel
- man-db - Tools for searching and reading man pages
- microcode_ctl - Tool to transform and deploy CPU microcode update for x86
- postfix - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
- quota - System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage
- rtorrent - BitTorrent client based on libtorrent
- talk - Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting
- tcpdump - A network traffic monitoring tool
- telnet - The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
- unzip - A utility for unpacking zip files
- usbutils - Linux USB utilities
- vconfig - Linux 802.1q VLAN configuration utility