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Local copies of Linux tools and add-ons
We maintain these to prevent link rot and to keep a consistent set of versions across all our installations.
| Tom's single disk root bootdisk | This tarball contains everything you need to create a highly-functional Linux rescue disk. [ Home ] |
| BootPart | BootPart allows you to install Linux after you have installed other OSes. Running under NT, it slurps up Linux's boot sector and stuffs it into a file on your NT partition that can be used with OS Loader to multi-boot your machine. [ Home ] |
| bzip2 | bzip is a new block-sorting file compressor. Patches and kernels are now being shipped using this form of compression. [ Home ] |
| Secure shell |
Secure shell (ssh) is a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp.
[ Home ]
Here's a script I created for starting sshd when the system boots. Dug Song's AFS-Kerberos patch, ported to 1.2.27. |
| arla |
Arla is a freeware version of the Unix AFS client which builds on
almost all flavors of Linux.
This is version 0.27, which is known to work well.
[ Home ]
And here's a script I created for starting arla when the system boots. |
| KTH Kerberos iv | KTH Kerberos is an alternate implementation of MIT's Kerberos, used with Arla. [ Home ] |
| egcs | The latest experimental GNU C compiler, version 1.1.1. [ Home ] |
| gcc | The Gnu C compiler, version 2.8.1. [ Home ] |
| glibc | Gnu's C run time library, version 2.0.6. [ Home ] |
| id-utils | Greg McGary's "id" tools [ Home ] |
| imwheel | imwheel is a daemon that supports the wheel on Logitech and Microsoft mice, and other mice with more than three buttons. [ Home - Mouse scroll page ] |
| Berkeley db | Berkeley db is a suite of tools for creating Enterprise-strength database applications. [ Home ] |
| hdparm | hdparm is a tool for adjusting filesystem and IDE disk performance. [ Home ] |
| procps | The latest procps package has bugfixes for top, ps, and vmstat. [ Home ] |
| sar | This is an unfinished Linux port of the sar performance reporting utility. [ Home ] |
| pcmcia | This package support PCMCIA cards on Linux. [ Home ftp ] |
Benchmarks
| profile.c | Profile can read the kernel's profile buffer and generate an intelligent EIP histogram. |
| readprofile | Readprofile is used to read and clear the Linux kernel's profile buffer. [ Home ] |
| lmbench | The alpha 10 release of lmbench, a microbenchmarking suite. [ Home ] |
| nbench | This is a copy of the Byte Linux benchmarks. [ Home ] |
| bonnie | Bonnie is a UNIX filesystem benchmark. [ Home ] |
| Andrew benchmark | The Andrew benchmark is contributed software that provides a standard offered file system load for measuring performance. [ Home ] |
| httperf | httperf is a popular web server benchmark. [ Home ] |
| WebStone 2.5 | The Web Stone benchmark, version 2.5. [ Home ] |
If you have comments or suggestions, email linux-scalability@citi.umich.edu
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