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Linux System Utilities

A collection of essential command‐line utilities and tools that form the backbone of Linux operating systems, providing critical system functionalities.

59 projects

35,384 contributors

$170M

Supervisor

Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

Contributors

2,926

Organizations

921

Software value

$1.2M

fwupd

A system daemon that allows session software to update device firmware on Linux systems by managing device updates from multiple vendors through a unified interface, supporting UEFI capsule updates and other firmware update standards

Contributors

2,696

Organizations

651

Software value

$13M

Solaar

Linux device manager for Logitech devices

Contributors

2,255

Organizations

477

Software value

$1.4M

Blueman

Blueman is a GTK-based Bluetooth manager for Linux systems that provides a graphical interface for handling Bluetooth devices and connections. It includes features like device pairing, file transfers, audio device management, and network connections through a user-friendly interface.

Contributors

2,167

Organizations

253

Software value

$1.4M

Distrobox

Distrobox is a tool that enables running any Linux distribution inside a container as a seamless integration with the host OS, allowing use of the host system's resources while maintaining isolation. It facilitates running alternative distributions, development environments, and desktop applications in containerized environments.

Contributors

1,620

Organizations

348

Software value

$327K

libratbag

A system daemon and tools for configuring gaming mice and other input devices on Linux, providing a unified interface to manage device-specific features like DPI settings, button mapping, LED controls, and profiles

Contributors

1,616

Organizations

303

Software value

$1.2M

Fastfetch

Fastfetch is a system information tool for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows that displays system information like CPU, GPU, memory, operating system, packages, and more in the terminal. It is designed to be a faster alternative to Neofetch with support for more operating systems and information types.

Contributors

1,414

Organizations

298

Software value

$3.9M

eza

A modern, fast and feature-rich replacement for 'ls', written in Rust. It provides colorized output, Git integration, and extended file information display capabilities.

Contributors

1,255

Organizations

311

Software value

$598K

htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

Contributors

1,161

Organizations

314

Software value

$1.2M

nvme-cli

NVMe-CLI is a command-line interface tool for Linux systems that enables management and interaction with NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) storage devices. It provides capabilities for device configuration, firmware updates, namespace management, and monitoring of NVMe SSDs.

Contributors

1,152

Organizations

196

Software value

$13M

Btrfs-progs

Btrfs-progs is a set of userspace utilities for creating, checking, modifying and debugging the Btrfs filesystem. It provides essential tools for managing Btrfs volumes, including mkfs.btrfs for creating filesystems, btrfs-check for filesystem checking, and various subcommands for tasks like balancing, device management, and snapshot operations.

Contributors

998

Organizations

262

Software value

$5.6M

RPM Package Manager

RPM Package Manager is a powerful and widely-used package management system that handles the installation, upgrading, and removal of software packages on Linux systems. It maintains a database of installed packages and their files, handles dependencies, and verifies package integrity.

Contributors

987

Organizations

257

Software value

$2.6M

TLP

TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

Contributors

947

Organizations

241

Software value

$562K

Sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers

Contributors

927

Organizations

309

Software value

$11M

Avahi

Avahi - Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour

Contributors

894

Organizations

201

Software value

$2.5M

UPX

UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

Contributors

888

Organizations

243

Software value

$7M

liburing

liburing is a library that provides a fast and efficient interface for Linux io_uring asynchronous I/O operations. It offers a simplified API for applications to leverage the kernel's io_uring subsystem for high-performance I/O operations, including file operations, network I/O, and other asynchronous tasks.

Contributors

751

Organizations

227

Software value

$2M

Portable OpenSSH

Portable OpenSSH

Contributors

710

Organizations

233

Software value

$5.2M

BusyBox for Windows

BusyBox for Windows (busybox-w32) is a port of BusyBox to the Windows operating system, providing a collection of common Unix utilities in a single executable. It implements many standard command-line tools like ls, cp, grep, and others, making Unix-style command line operations available on Windows platforms.

Contributors

708

Organizations

178

Software value

$9.1M

libostree

libostree is a hybrid system that combines a git-style content-addressed object store with extended attributes for bootable filesystem trees. It provides atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and immutable roots for Linux-based operating systems.

Contributors

690

Organizations

214

Software value

$3.7M

e2fsprogs

Ext2/3/4 file system utilities

Contributors

654

Organizations

168

Software value

$7.1M

MTR

MTR (My TraceRoute) is a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping. It continuously monitors network connections and displays the route and performance metrics between the host and a target destination, helping diagnose network issues and latency problems.

Contributors

577

Organizations

157

Software value

$413K

u-root

A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.

Contributors

534

Organizations

147

Software value

$34M

strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux that allows monitoring and tampering with interactions between processes and the Linux kernel through system calls and signals

Contributors

523

Organizations

175

Software value

$8.2M

iputils

The iputils package is set of small old utilities for Linux networking.

Contributors

519

Organizations

120

Software value

$306K

GNU Coreutils

GNU Coreutils is a collection of fundamental Unix command line utilities for file, text, and shell manipulation. It provides essential tools like ls, cp, mv, rm, cat, and many others that form the core building blocks of Unix/Linux systems.

Contributors

462

Organizations

107

Software value

$3.5M

Less Terminal Pager

Less - text pager

Contributors

462

Organizations

127

Software value

$2.4M

ALSA Utils

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - library

Contributors

422

Organizations

113

Software value

$1.7M

PowerTOP

PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. It detects which hardware devices and software programs are causing the most power drain, provides detailed statistics, and offers suggestions to optimize power usage and extend battery life on laptops and mobile devices.

Contributors

345

Organizations

98

Software value

$576K

libzypp

libzypp is the package management library that powers software management in openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. It handles installation, removal, and updates of software packages, repositories, and patches, providing a powerful foundation for package management tools like YaST and zypper.

Contributors

336

Organizations

62

Software value

$5.1M

kpatch

kpatch - live kernel patching

Contributors

320

Organizations

79

Software value

$935K

Libguestfs

library and tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. PLEASE DO NOT USE GITHUB FOR ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS. See the website for how to file a bug or contact us.

Contributors

312

Organizations

79

Software value

$3.4M

XZ Utils

XZ Utils

Contributors

308

Organizations

108

Software value

$1.4M

ndctl

A "device memory" enabling project encompassing tools and libraries for CXL, NVDIMMs, DAX, memory tiering and other platform memory device topics.

Contributors

308

Organizations

60

Software value

$1.8M

fping

High performance ping tool

Contributors

303

Organizations

76

Software value

$201K

ugrep

🔍 ugrep 7.2 file pattern searcher -- a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

Contributors

299

Organizations

82

Software value

$3.8M

Linux Audit

Linux audit userspace repository

Contributors

292

Organizations

76

Software value

$2.2M

Irqbalance

The irqbalance source tree - The new official site for irqbalance

Contributors

290

Organizations

74

Software value

$179K

PCI Utilities

The PCI Utilities

Contributors

267

Organizations

73

Software value

$790K

numactl

numactl is a Linux utility for controlling NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) policy for processes or shared memory. It allows users to run processes with a specific NUMA scheduling or memory placement policy, move pages between nodes, and query the NUMA configuration of the system.

Contributors

237

Organizations

72

Software value

$250K

colord

colord is a system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles to accurately color manage input and output devices like displays, scanners and printers

Contributors

213

Organizations

58

Software value

$2.9M

mcelog

Linux kernel machine check handling middleware

Contributors

172

Organizations

34

Software value

$308K

Distro

Distro is a Python library that provides information about the Linux distribution it runs on, including version, codename, and other OS release information. It serves as a unified way to detect and query Linux distribution details across different systems.

Contributors

148

Organizations

79

Software value

$128K

Thin Provisioning Tools

A Linux Foundation project providing lightweight tools for provisioning and managing thin clients, virtual machines, and containerized environments, enabling efficient resource allocation and deployment across distributed computing systems.

Contributors

143

Organizations

51

Software value

$1.3M

bfs

A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command

Contributors

91

Organizations

39

Software value

$867K

errno

A Rust library that provides cross-platform access to the errno error number variable, allowing programs to retrieve system error codes and their corresponding error messages

Contributors

85

Organizations

33

Software value

$20K

ABRT

Automatic bug detection and reporting tool

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

AOSP-Mirror Build Platform

A Linux Foundation project that provides a mirrored repository and build environment for Android Open Source Project (AOSP), enabling developers to efficiently access, compile, and customize Android source code.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

CUPS

OpenPrinting CUPS Sources

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

LVM2

Mirror of upstream LVM2 repository

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Open-iSCSI

iSCSI tools for Linux

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

PipeWire

Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Snapper

Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Squashfs-tools

tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

patchelf

A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

util-linux

A Linux Foundation project providing essential utilities and tools for Linux operating systems, enhancing functionality and user experience while maintaining compatibility across different distributions.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
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