Base
This group includes a minimal set of packages. Useful for creating small router/firewall boxes, for example.
- banner - Prints a short string to the console in very large letters
- bc - GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc (a calculator)
- bzip2 - A file compression utility
- cadaver - Command-line WebDAV client
- cifs-utils - Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
- di - Disk Information utility
- ed - The GNU line editor
- fping - Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility
- hunspell-es - Diccionarios al Español para Hunspell
- kernel-tools - Assortment of tools for the Linux kernel
- logwatch - Analyzes and Reports on system logs
- man-db - Tools for searching and reading man pages
- mgetty - A getty replacement for use with data and fax modems
- microcode_ctl - Tool to transform and deploy CPU microcode update for x86
- mtools - Programs for accessing MS-DOS disks without mounting the disks
- mtr - Network diagnostic tool combining 'traceroute' and 'ping'
- nano - A small text editor
- ne - Easy to use text editor based on the POSIX standard
- nmap-ncat - Nmap's Netcat replacement
- pam_krb5 - A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5
- pciutils - PCI bus related utilities
- postfix - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
- quota - System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage
- rsh - Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp)
- rsync - A program for synchronizing files over a network
- smartmontools - Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
- squashfs-tools - Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
- squashfuse - FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives
- stunnel - A TLS-encrypting socket wrapper
- sudo - Allows restricted root access for specified users
- symlinks - A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links
- tcsh - An enhanced version of csh, the C shell
- ugrep - Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI
- vconfig - Linux 802.1q VLAN configuration utility
- which - Displays where a particular program in your path is located
- whois - Improved WHOIS client
- words - Dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory
- ytree - A filemanager similar to XTree