Utilities

• Ext2 compression extension
  The Linux e2compr package consists of a set of patches and utilities to provide transparent compression and decompression in the second extended (ext2) filesystem. ...
  
• hzip
  HZIP compresses most HTML files 20%-70%. This means you use that much less bandwidth on your pages, and users will see their page download that much faster. HZIP keeps the original content of the HTM...
  
• makeself
  makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractible tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launche...
  
• xmlppm
  A data compression program that compresses XML files from 5 to 30% better than any existing text or XML-specific compressors. ...
  
• ezbkup
  Ezbkup is a bash script for backing up *NIX systems. Ezbkup copies all files and directories listed in its configuration file and then drops a tarred & gzipped archive in the user's home directory ...
  
• srzip
  A compression utility with control very similar to gzip or bzip2. ...
  
• exepak
  An executable compressor for Linux ELF that uses the UCL compression library ...
  
• XArchive
  XArchive is a generic front end for archives that uses external wrappers around the command line tools. XArchive checks it's wrapper directory when it starts, consulting each wrapper found to see wha...
  
• Html2fo
  Converts files from html to xml:fo formats. The HTML code can be written with StarOffice or other WYSIWYG editors and need not be 100% valid. ...
  
• PAQ
  PAQ is a series of data compression archivers that have evolved through collaborative development to top rankings on several benchmarks measuring compression ratio. ...
  
• tarmill
  A tar file compression/encryption program. ...
  
• lbrate
  Extracts/decompresses files from the CP/M LBR format. ...
  
• UnACE
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• K7Z
  Use K7Z if you want to: * Backup a folder to a storage location * Create or extract a password-protected archive * Update an existing archive quickly Ark (2.6.3) is handy but it doesn't seem to...
  
• KDirStat
  KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for direcory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree...
  
• RazorBack
  RazorBack is a log analysis program that interfaces with the SNORT open source Intrusion Detection System. ...
  
• KHealthCare
  KHealthCare is a hardware monitoring program, running under Linux / KDE. ...
  
• Analog
  Analog shows you the usage patterns on your web server. It's very scalable and ultra fast. ...
  
• Checkservice
  Checkservice is a Perl script that monitors services on remote hosts. ...
  
• ascpu
  ascpu is an X windows applet with AfterStep look which displays the current CPU load (user/system/nice) and calculates the average load. It features multiple options for customization. ascpu currentl...
  
• sysstat
  The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity ...
  
• Diagnostic I/O
  dio is a commandline utility that can generate reads and/or writes to a raw device, a file, or to memory. It supports large files, variable block sizes, configurable seek lengths between I/Os, and in...
  
• atkins
  Atkins can be used to examine variables, tables, and linked lists in the running kernel. ...
  
• XSensors
  XSensors is a program designed to display all the related information from motherboard sensors. This information is gathered via lm_sensors, the software drivers that retrieves the sensor information...
  
• Re-Tail
  Re-Tail is a command line program which is intended as an intelligent incremental logfile reader. It will read a file or group of files given on the command line, and output any changes since last ti...