Partition Programs

cfdisk - curses-based disk partition table manipulator

fdisk - partition table manipulator

fixparts - designed to correct common problems with computer partition tables

gdisk - text-mode partitioning tool that works on GPT disks

gpart - guess PC-type hard disk partitions

GParted - partition editor that uses libparted

parted - partition manipulation program

sfdisk - partition table manipulator

File System Programs

btrfs - btrfs is a new copy on write file system for Linux

Bonnie + + - benchmark suite aimed at performing a number of simple tests

curlftpfs - file system for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl

dbench - file system benchmark programs

diskdev_cmds - OSX-ported, HFS + programs supplying mkfs and fsck

dosfstools - programs to create and check MS-DOS FAT file systems

e2fsprogs - ext2 file system programs and libraries

EncFS - provides an encrypted file system in user space

fsarchiver - save contents of a file system to a compressed archive file

FUSE - file system in userspace

hfsplus - set of tools to access HFS + file systems

IOzone - file system benchmark tool

ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs - third generation NTFS driver and tools for doing neat things with NTFS

ObexFS - FUSE based filesystem using ObexFTP

reiserfsprogs - user-level tools for ReiserFS file systems

sshfs - file system client based on SSH

vmfs-tools - access VMFS through standard Linux VFS via FUSE

xfsprogs - programs for managing XFS file systems

zfs-fuse - a port of the ZFS file system from Sun

Booting Loader Programs

grub - GRand Unified Bootloader

HDT (Hardware Detection Tool) - Syslinux com32 hardware analyzer module

install-mbr - installs and configures a Master Boot Record manager

lilo - LInux LOader

Memtest86 + - advanced memory diagnostic tool

ms-sys - used to create Microsoft-compatible boot records

syslinux - bootloaders for FAT12/16/32, bootable "El Torito" (iso9660), ext2/3/4 and brtfs file systems

X Programs

Audacious - Audacious is an open source audio player

Asunder - Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder

arandr - designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR

Blueman Device Manager - Blueman is a GTK + Bluetooth Manager

ClamTk Virus Scanner - A GUI front-end for ClamAV

Conky - lightweight system monitor

CUPS - CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system

ddrescue-gui - A python script to make it easier to use ddrescue

Evince Document Viewer - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats

feh - an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users

File Roller - archive manager

Firefox - open source web browser

galculator - GTK + scientific calculator

GEncFS - GUI to EncFS, for encrypted directory mounting

gtkdialog - small utility for fast and easy GUI building

gtk-lshw - GTK + front-end for lshw

GSmartControl - HDD health inspection tool (GUI for smartctl)

GSSHFS - GUI to SSHFS, for distant directory over SSH mounting

hardinfo - system profiler and benchmark

ISO Master - GUI CD image editor

Leafpad - GTK + based simple text editor

lilosetup - a GUI utility to configure LILO bootloader

Mirage Image Viewer - Mirage is a fast and simple GTK + image viewer

netwag - a graphical front-end to netwox

NetworkManager - Great Networking powered by DBUS

Parcellite - Parcellite is a lightweight GTK + clipboard manager

pyneighborhood - an OpenSource GTK + based SMB / CIFS Browsing utility

ROX-Filer - a simple and easy to use graphical file manager for X11

ROXTerm - ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library

SciTE - A free source code editor for Win32 and X

spacefm - a file manager with built-in VFS, udev-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration

systester - Test your system's stability and performance by calculating millions of digits of Pi

TigerVNC Viewer - a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC

TrueCrypt - software system for on-the-fly-encrypted volumes

UNetbootin - create bootable, Live USB drives for Linux distros without burning a CD

WICD - A network connection manager that aims to simplify wired and wireless networking in Linux

XChat - IRC chat program

xclamscan - GUI for the ClamAV anti-virus

Xdialog - designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs

xfburn - Xfburn is a simple CD / DVD burning tool based on libburnia libraries

Yad - (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements

Zenity - allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts

Console Programs

AlsaMixer - soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface

arpwatch - a tool for monitoring Address Resolution Protocol traffic on a computer network

bar - a simple tool to copy a stream of data and print a display for the user

BlueZ - official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack

bzip2recover - recover data from damaged bz2 files

cdrtools - allows recording to CD / DVD / BluRay media

chntpw - utility to (re) set passwords of local accounts on Windows systems

ClamAV - open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX

Clonezilla - OpenSource clone system

cmospwd - decrypts passwords stored in CMOS used to access BIOS setup

consoleKit - ConsoleKit is a framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions, and seats

cURL - tool for transferring files with URL syntax

dcfldd - enhanced version of GNU dd

dc3dd - patched version of GNU dd

GNU dd - convert and copy a file

ddrescue - does not abort on errors on the input file

device-mapper - kernel component that supports LVM

di (Disk Information Utility) - disk information programs

diff - compares two files, showing differences line by line

disktype - detect content format of disk or disk image

dislocker - designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions under Linux and Mac OSX systems

dmidecode - reports information about your system's hardware

dmraid - discover and activate software (ATA) RAID

DRBL - Diskless Remote Boot in Linux

dvd + rw-tools - makes it possible to burn DVD images

ELinks - text mode web browser

ethtool - standard Linux utility for controlling network drivers and hardware

ext3grep - recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 file systems

extundelete - tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 file systems

file - determine file type

flashrom - identify, read, write, verify, erase flash chips

gptsync - GPT partition table to MBR partition table synchronisation

hdparm - get / set ATA / SATA drive parameters

hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal

hfsprescue - scans a damaged image file or partition that is formatted with HFS +

iptables - administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT

lftp - command-line file transfer program

lm-sensors - Linux hardware monitoring

lshw - Hardware Lister

lsof - (LiSt Open Files) displays information about files open to processes

lspci - lists PCI buses and devices in the system

lsscsi - lists information about SCSI devices

lsusb - lists USB devices

lzip - gzip-like command line tool which uses LZMA compression

md5deep - a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files

mdadm - manage MD devices, aka Linux Software Raid

Midnight Commander - file manager

modem-manager - D-Bus service for managing modems

multipath-tools - used to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver

nano - editor aimed to replace Pico

nbd - network block device, client and server.

nmap - programs for network discovery and security auditing

ntp - Network Time Protocol

Nwipe - run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN

Open-iSCSI - Open-iSCSI project is a high performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720

openSSH - encrypt sessions using the SSH protocol

openSSL - open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols

partclone - a project similar to the well-known backup utility

partclone-utils - partclone-utils contains a utility for use with partclone generated images

partimage - utility which saves partitions to an image file

perl - a highly capable, feature-rich programming language

PhotoRec - digital photo recovery

pigz - parallel implementation of gzip that exploits multiple processors & cores

plzip - parallel lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm

polkit - a toolkit for handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes

pv (pipe viewer) - monitors the progress of data through a pipeline

pxz - a compression utility that runs LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple processors simultaneously

rdiff-backup - rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network

reglookup - direct analysis of Windows NT-based registry files

RP-PPPoE - PPPoE client for Linux to connect to PPPoE service providers

rsync - fast incremental file transfer

rTorrent - text-based ncurses BitTorrent client

safecopy - data recovery tool

samba - the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix

Scrounge NTFS - data recovery program for NTFS

sdparm - outputs and modifies SCSI device parameters

shorewall - a gateway / firewall configuration tool for GNU / Linux

shred - securely delete a file

smartctl - control and monitor utility for SMART disks

stress - simple workload generator

sudo - execute a command as another user

TestDisk - partition scanner and disk recovery tool

udevil - a program that mounts and unmounts devices without a password, shows device info, and monitors device changes

udisks - a daemon that serves as an interface to system block devices, implemented via D-Bus

UDPcast - transfer tool that can multicast data on a LAN

unarj - program used to uncompress. arj format archives

wpa_supplicant - implementation of an IEEE 802.11i supplicant

wipe - secure, file wiping utility

zenmap - the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI

zerofree - Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3 file-system and fills them with zeroes.