Linux Base Utilities
Note: ⩔ is a "logical or" character.
| Description | Arch Linux | Alpine Linux | Debian | Void |
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| Boot Loaders | grub ⩔ refind ⩔ syslinuxNote: systemd also provides systemd-boot |
grub2 ⩔ refind ⩔ syslinux
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| Boot Tools | ( memtest86+ ⩔ memtest86-efiAUR ) mkinitcpio |
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| Compression | arj lzop p7zip unrar unzip zip zstd |
lzo p7zip unrar unzip unarj zip zstd
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| Diagnosis | atop glances htop iftop iotop lsof strace stress |
atop glances htop iftop iotop lsof strace
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| Editing | nano nano-syntax-highlighting vim |
nano vim
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| EFI | edk2-shell efitools efibootmgr sbsigntools |
efibootmgr sbsigntool
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| Extra | arch-install-scripts jq (tmux ⩔ screen) |
arch-install-scripts jq ( tmux ⩔ screen )
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| Disk Management | gpart gptfdisk parted |
gpart gptfdisk parted
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| File Management | git ncdu perl-rename ranger rsync tree |
git ncdu ranger rsync tree
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| Filesystems | btrfs-progs dosfstools exfat-utils ext3grep f2fs-tools jfsutils mdadm mtools nfs-utils nilfs-utils ntfs-3g reiserfsprogs smbclient udftools xfsprogs |
btrfs-progs dosfstools f2fs-tools jfsutils mdadm mtools nfs-utils ntfs-3g samba-client xfsprogs udftools
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| GStreamer | gstreamer{-vaapi,} gst-{libav,plugin-pipewire} gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly} |
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| Hardware Support/Reporting | acpid cpupower dmidecode dmraid hddtemp hdparm hwdetect lshw smartmontools sysbench usbutils |
acpi dmidecode dmraid hdparm lsblk lshw smartmontools usbutils
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| Hardware Video Acceleration | libva-{mesa,vdpau}-driver libva-utils libvdpau-va-gl mesa-vdpau vdpauinfo |
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| Hardware Video Acceleration (AMD/ATI) | radeontop |
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| Hardware Video Acceleration (Intel) | ( intel-media-driver ⩔ ( libva-intel-driver libva-intel-driver-g45-h264AUR ) ) intel-gpu-tools |
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| Hardware Video Acceleration (Nouveau) | nouveau-fwAUR |
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| Hardware Video Acceleration (NVIDIA) | nvidia-utils |
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| Networking | ( connman ⩔ networkmanager ) bind ethtool fail2ban inetutils iptraf-ng iwd net-tools nload nmap nmon traceroute wget whois wol |
( connman ⩔ NetworkManager ) bind ethtool fail2ban iptraf-ng iwd net-tools nload nmap wget whois
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| Package System Helpers | lostfiles pacman-contrib pacutils pkgfile reflector
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| Shell Support | checkbashisms dialog lsb-release neofetch powerline powerline-fonts zsh zsh-completions zsh-syntax-highlighting |
checkbashisms dialog neofetch kbd zsh $(apk search zsh-completion | sed 's/-[0-9.]*-r[0-9]*//g' | tr '\n' ' ') zsh-syntax-highlighting
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| System | cronie haveged mlocate ntp openssh polkit sudo |
haveged haveged-openrc mlocate openntpd openssh polkit-elogind sudo
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| Xorg | xdg-{utils,user-dirs} xorg-{server,xauth,xdpyinfo,xrandr,xwininfo |
elogind eudev xorg-{server,xdpyinfo,xrandr} xf86-input-libinput
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| Xorg Video | xf86-video-{amdgpu,ati,intel,nouveau,openchrome,vesa} |
xf86-video-{amdgpu,ati,intel,modesettings,nouveau,openchrome,vesa}
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