Graphical package management program using apt.

Synaptic (previously known as raptor) is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+

Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support.

A port of Debian's apt tools for RPM based distributions, or at least originally for Conectiva and now Red Hat Linux. It provides the apt-get utility that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features. Available rpmbuild rebuild options : --without : scripts

The RPM package management system.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc.

The GNOME Control Center.

GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment) is an attractive and easy-to-use graphical desktop environment. The control-center package provides the GNOME Control Center utilities, which allow you to setup and configure your system's GNOME environment (such as the desktop background and theme, the screensaver, the window manager, system sounds, and mouse behavior). If you install GNOME, you need to install control-center.

A system documentation reader from the Gnome project.

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool.

a tool for monitoring print queues from GNOME

GNOME Print Manager is a tool for monitoring and controlling printing queues from the GNOME desktop. You can view the available printers, set the default printer, and view and cancel current print jobs.

CUPS front-end and library for Qt

QtCups provides CUPS support for Qt applications. It includes: a CUPS front-end to be used as a replacement for "lpr", which provides a nice graphical interface for print settings (printer, configuration, ...)

Nautilus desktop print icon

The desktop-printing package contains a desktop icon that supports drag-and-drop printing. It can handle different file types, and attempts to take the proper steps to correctly print each one.

GNOME utility programs.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package includes a set of utilities for GNOME, including Gcalc, Gdialog, Gdiskfree, and many others.

Nautilus is a network user environment.

Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based resources and the Web. Nautilus delivers a dynamic and rich user experience. Nautilus is a free software project developed under the GNU General Public License and is a core component of the GNOME desktop project.

Easy to use CD burning for Gnome

An easy to use CD burning package, well integrated with Nautilus and the Gnome desktop.

A versatile CD recording package for both sound and data.

Gnome Toaster is a versatile CD creation suite. It is designed to be as user-friendly as possible, allowing you to create CD-ROMs with just a few simple mouse clicks. Audio and data CDs are both possible. Gnome Toaster is also well integrated with the GNOME and KDE filemanagers.

File Roller is a tool for viewing and creating archives.

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar files.

A utility for unpacking zip files.

The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ in some respects.

Utilities for manipulating Macintosh file formats.

The macutils package includes a set of utilities for manipulating files that are commonly used by Macintosh machines. Macutils includes utilities like binhex, hexbin, macunpack, etc.

Multiple stacked system monitors that take up only 1 process.

GKrellM charts SMP CPU, load, Disk, and all active net interfaces automatically. An on/off button and online timer for the PPP interface is provided. Monitors for memory and swap usage, file system, internet connections, APM laptop battery, mbox style mailboxes, and cpu temperatures are also included. GKrellM also includes an uptime monitor, a hostname label, and a clock/calendar. Additional features include: * Autoscaling grid lines with configurable grid line resolution. * LED indicators for the net interfaces. * A gui popup for configuration of chart sizes and resolutions.

Simple process monitor

gnome-system-monitor is a simple process and system monitor.

3D File System Visualizer

fsv (pronounced effessvee) is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis. fsv can visualize a modest home directory, a workstation's hard drive, or any arbitrarily large collection of files, limited only by the host computer's memory and hardware constraints.

A 3d file browser.

tdfsb is a great 3d file browser. You can move in your file system like in quake. Select and play you mpeg movie or listen mp3 file.

XCruiser, a filesystem visualization utility

XCruiser is a filesystem visualization utility which compares a filesystem to a 3D-formed universe and allows you to "cruise" within it.

GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader.

GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is a boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems.

A fast and powerful graphical file manager

ROX-Filer is a fast, powerful, and easy to use graphical file manager. It has full support for drag-and-drop and application directories. The filer can also provide a pinboard (allowing you to pin up files on your desktop background) and panels. The emphasis is on uncluttered directory views; menus and prompts only appear when needed. The Wrappers package found on the Rox home page is already included.

Just Another Gtk+ Samba-client

Jags - Just Another Gtk+ Samba-client, is a GUI frontend running over Samba and Smbmount. It's easy to use and very configurable.

The Samba SMB server configuration program.

The samba-swat package includes the new SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool), for remotely managing Samba's smb.conf file using your favorite Web browser.

A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices.

A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices.

A remote display system.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.

Wireless Ethernet configuration tools.

This package contain the Wireless tools used to manipulate the Wireless Extension. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get specific statistics for wireless networking equipment.

A text editor for GNOME.

gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.

GNOME Terminal

GNOME terminal emulator application.

A hardware browser.

A graphical browser for your current hardware configuration.

HardWare LiSter

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work). Information can be output in plain text, XML or HTML. For detailed information on lshw features and usage, please see the included documentation or go to the lshw Web page, http://www.ezix.org/software/lshw.html

Memtester is a memory tester

Memtest is a utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. The original source was by Simon Kirby . I have by this time completely rewritten the original source, and added many additional tests to help catch borderline memory. I also rewrote the original tests (which catch mainly memory bits which are stuck permanently high or low) so that they run approximately an order of magnitude faster.

The Red Hat Linux configuration tool for legacy sound cards.

Sndconfig is a text based tool that sets up the configuration files you will need to use legacy sound cards (ISA, non-PnP) with a Red Hat Linux system. Sndconfig can be used to set the proper sound type for programs that use the /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, and /dev/mixer devices. The sound settings are saved by the aumix and sysV runlevel scripts.

A USB topology and device viewer.

USBView is a GTK+ program that displays the topography of the devices plugged into the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays information on each of the devices. The information it provides can be useful to determine if a device is working properly.

Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files.

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly, or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Multi Router Traffic Grapher

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic.

A graphical interface for modifying system date and time

redhat-config-date is a graphical interface for changing the system date and time, configuring the system time zone, and setting up the NTP daemon to synchronize the time of the system with a NTP time server.

A graphical configuration tool for the httpd Web server.

A graphical configuration tool for the httpd Web server.

A graphical interface for modifying the keyboard

redhat-config-keyboard is a graphical user interface that allows the user to change the default keyboard of the system.

A graphical interface for making kickstart files.

redhat-config-kickstart is a graphical tool for creating kickstart files.

A graphical interface for modifying the language

redhat-config-language is a graphical user interface that allows the user to change the default language of the system.

A graphical interface for configuring mice

redhat-config-mouse is a graphical user interface that allows the user to change the default mouse of the system.

The graphical user interface for the Red Hat Linux network configuration tool.

This is the graphical user interface for the Red Hat Linux network configuration tool. It supports the configuration of Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN, and PPP network interfaces.

NFS server configuration tool

redhat-config-nfs is a graphical user interface for creating, modifying, and deleting nfs shares.

A GUI frontend for printconf.

The printconf-gui package contains a GUI tool for the printconf utility.

A configuration tool for operating system tunable parameters

This is a tool for configuring operating system tunable parameters. It eases modifying /etc/sysctl.conf.

A graphical interface for modifying the rootpassword

redhat-config-rootpassword is a graphical user interface that allows the user to change the root password of the system.

Samba server configuration tool

redhat-config-samba is a graphical user interface for creating, modifying, and deleting samba shares.

A graphical interface for modifying the system security level

redhat-config-securitylevel is a graphical user interface for setting basic firewall rules.

redhat-config-services is an initscript and xinetd configuration utility.

redhat-config-services is a utility which allows you to configure which services should be enabled on your machine.

A graphical interface for detecting and configuring soundcards

redhat-config-soundcard is a graphical user interface that detects and configures the soundcard(s) on the system.

A graphical interface for administering users and groups.

Redhat-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating users and groups. It depends on the libuser library.

A graphical interface for configuring XFree86

redhat-config-xfree is a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure their XFree86 Xserver.

A graphical interface for viewing log files

Red Hat Log Viewer is a graphical interface for viewing and searching log files.

Red Hat specific rpm configuration files.

Red Hat specific rpm configuration files.

The Printing System Switcher for Red Hat Linux

redhat-switch-printer is the Printing System Switcher for Red Hat Linux. It enables users to easily switch between various printing system that they have installed.