flashrom is a utility for detecting, reading, writing, verifying and erasing
flash chips. It is often used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware images
in-system using a supported mainboard, but it also supports flashing of network
cards (NICs), SATA controller cards, and other external devices which can
program flash chips.
It supports a wide range of DIP32, PLCC32, DIP8, SO8/SOIC8, TSOP32, and TSOP40
chips, which use various protocols such as LPC, FWH, parallel flash, or SPI.
flog (file logger) is a small C program that reads input from STDIN and writes
to a file, optionally adding timestamps. If SIGHUP is received, the file will
be reopened, allowing for log rotation (see newsyslog(8)). The log file will
only be reopened if flog detects that rotation has occurred (i.e., the old file
is gone or the inode has changed). flog is extremely small (a memory footprint
of less than 500 bytes). It also protects you from running out of disk space;
if that happens, the logfile will be truncated and a warning generated. This
could save you from waking up to pager beeps in the middle of the night.
The Heartbeat program is one of the core components of the Linux-HA
(High-Availability Linux) project. Heartbeat is highly portable,
and runs on every known Linux platform, and also on FreeBSD and
Solaris. Ports to other OSes are also in progress.
Heartbeat is the first piece of software which was written for the
Linux-HA project. It performs death-of-node detection,
communications and cluster management in one process.
The Heartbeat program has been around for a while. It has a great
many strengths, and yet there were a few weaknesses in version 1
that needed to be addressed:
- limitation on two nodes for cluster size
- inability to monitor resources for their correct operation
- minimal ability to express dependency information
This release removes these limitations.
fnteditfs is a small, simple font editor, designed for editing FreeBSD's
syscons and Linux fonts (but may also work for other OSes). It's written
in C, using the ncurses library for its display library.
This is a port of detox, which is a program that renames files to make them
easier to work with under Unix and related operating systems. Spaces and
various other unsafe characters (such as "$") get replaced with "_". ISO
8859-1 (Latin-1) characters can be replaced as well, as can UTF-8 characters.
Fpart is a tool that helps you sort files and pack them into bags
("partitions"). It is developped in C and available under the BSD license.
It splits a list of directories and files into a certain number of partitions,
trying to produce partitions with the same size and number of files. It can
also produce partitions with a given number of files or a limited size.
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development
environments.
Cfengine, or the configuration engine is an agent/software robot and a
very high level language for building expert systems to administrate
and configure large computer networks. Cfengine uses the idea of
classes and a primitive form of intelligence to define and automate
the configuration and maintenance of system state, for small to huge
configurations. Cfengine is designed to be a part of a computer immune
system.
Disktype detects the content format of a disk, device, or disk image.
It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
Virtual Memory Toucher
vmtouch is a tool for learning about and controlling the file system
cache of Unix and Unix-like systems.