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The sys-apps category contains various core system applications, and some non-core system applications which have not yet been moved out into other sys- categories.

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9base Port of various original Plan9 tools to unix
accountsservice D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation
ack A Perl-based grep replacement, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code
acl Access control list utilities, libraries and headers
attr Extended attribute support library for ACL support
bar A script for showing progress bars.
busybox Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
coreutils The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system
dbus Freedesktop.org message bus system
dcfldd DCFL (DoD Computer Forensics Lab) dd replacement with hashing
diffutils Utility programs used for creating patch files
dmapi Data migration API
dmidecode Desktop Management Interface table related utilities
dstat A versatile resource statistics tool
ed A POSIX-compliant line-oriented text editor
eject A program for ejecting removable media under software control.
ethtool Utility for controlling network drivers and hardware
fakechroot Gives a fake chroot environment
fakeroot Gives a fake root environment, useful for building packages as a non-privileged user
fbset Framebuffer setup utility
file File type identification utility
findutils GNU utilities to locate files
flashrom Utility for reading, writing, erasing and verifying flash ROM chips
galago-daemon Galago presence daemon
gawk GNU version of awk
gptfdisk A text-mode partitioning tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks
grep A string search utility
groff GNU troff text-formatting system
haveged A simple entropy daemon.
hdparm A shell utility for manipulating Linux IDE drive/driver parameters
help2man Conversion tool to create man files
hwinfo Hardware detection tool from openSUSE
hwloc Portable Hardware Locality is a portable abstraction of hierarchical architectures
ifplugd A daemon which brings up/down network interfaces upon cable insertion/removal.
initscripts System initialization/bootup scripts
initscripts-systemd Arch specific systemd initialization/bootup scripts for systemd
iproute2 IP Routing Utilities
irqbalance IRQ balancing daemon for SMP systems
isapnptools Allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured on a Linux machine
kbd Keytable files and keyboard utilities
kexec-tools Load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel
keyutils Linux Key Management Utilities
kmod Linux kernel module handling
less A terminal based program for viewing text files
lm_sensors Collection of user space tools for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring
logwatch Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system.
lomoco Logitech USB mouse configuration program
lsb-release LSB version query program
lshw A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
makedev The ubiquitous script to create static device nodes
man-db A utility for reading man pages
man-pages Linux man pages
man-pages-cs Czech man pages
man-pages-de German Linux man pages
man-pages-it Italian man pages
man-pages-pt_br Brazilian Portuguese collection of manpages
man-pages-ru Russian Linux man pages
memtest86+ An advanced memory diagnostic tool
mkinitcpio Modular initramfs image creation utility
mkinitcpio-busybox base initramfs tools
mlocate Faster merging drop-in for slocate
moreutils A growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write thirty years ago
most A terminal pager similar to 'more' and 'less'
net-tools Configuration tools for Linux networking
pciutils PCI bus configuration space access library and tools
pcmciautils Utilities for inserting and removing PCMCIA cards
pcsc-tools PC/SC Architecture smartcard tools
pmount mount removable devices as normal user
preload Makes applications run faster by prefetching binaries and shared objects
pv A terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
qingy A DirectFB getty replacement
seabios A X86 legacy bios
sed GNU stream editor
setserial Allows to change various attributes of a serial device
sg3_utils Generic SCSI utilities
shadow Password and account management tool suite with support for shadow files and PAM
systemd system and service manager
sysvinit Linux System V Init
texinfo Utilities to work with and produce manuals, ASCII text, and on-line documentation from a single source file
tomoyo-tools TOMOYO Linux 2.3.x userspace tools for Linux kernels 2.6.36 - 3.0
tzdata Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data
usb_modeswitch Activating switchable USB devices on Linux.
usbutils USB Device Utilities
util-linux Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux
v86d userspace helper for uvesafb that runs x86 code in an emulated environment
vbetool Uses lrmi in order to run code from the video BIOS
watchdog Watchdog daemon
which A utility to show the full path of commands
xinetd A secure replacement for inetd

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