Software Map

Initng is a full replacement of the old and in many ways deprecated sysvinit tool. It is designed with speed in mind, doing as much as possible asynchronously, and using the system resources more efficiently.

DOCSIS Server is a DHCP/TFTP/TOD/syslog server
that uses MySQL as a backend. If you have a
DOCSIS Cable Modem headend, you can use this
server to boot up cable modems and assign IP
addresses to customer premise equipment. With a
little bit of tweaking you could also use it as
just a DHCP server attached to a MySQL database.
It was designed to boot up more than 150 modems
per second.

Hotplug lets you plug in new devices and use them
immediately. That means that users won't need to
learn so much system administration, since the
Linux system will at least partially autoconfigure
itself. Initially, hotplug included support for
USB and PCI (Cardbus) devices, and could
automatically configure some common network
interfaces. Updated versions include IEEE 1394
(Firewire/i.Link) support and can download
firmware to USB devices that need it.

Kerrighed is a Single System Image operating
system (SSI) for clusters. It offers the view of a
unique SMP machine on top of a cluster of standard
PCs. The goals are high performance of
applications, high availability of the cluster,
efficient resource management, high
customizability of the operating system, and ease
of use. It is implemented as an extension to Linux
operating system (a set of Linux modules and a
small patch to the kernel).

Injector Linux is a single-floppy Linux system, which
supports many filesystems -- currently
approximately 25. Because of its wide range of
supported filesystems, it is very useful for disk
rescue operations.

ethwireck can detect if the physical layer of the
Ethernet is up. Laptops which use dynamic IP
address assignment via DHCP have the problem that
the boot process is much longer when no wire is
connected to the Ethernet card. This is because
the startup scripts have to wait for the DHCP
request to time out. ethwireck can be used in the
init script for your network card to determine
whether or not an interface should be brought up.
In other words, a timeout is avoided.

daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tedious tasks that need to be performed to correctly set up a daemon process; daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing daemons in languages other than C, C++, or Perl (e.g. sh, Java). If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions (e.g. C, C++), see libslack, which contains the core functionality of daemon.

TFTP Server is a multi-threaded TFTP server,
allowing any number of clients to connect
simultaneously. It supports tsize, blksize, and
interval options, PXE boot, and can be run
standalone or as a daemon. Port ranges can be
specified to work across firewalls. There is also
a single port version, for situations where
additional ports cannot be opened.

The DOCSIS config file encoder converts a human-readable text configuration file into a binary configuration file compatible with DOCSIS cable modems or PacketCable Multimedia Terminal Adapters (MTAs).

The devfsd program is a daemon, run by the system
boot, which can provide for intelligent management
of device entries in the Device Filesystem
(devfs). It is desirable to start the daemon at
the beginning of the boot scripts, in particular
before filesystem checks.

genext2fs generates an ext2 filesystem as a normal
(non-root) user. It does not require you to mount
the image file to copy files on it, nor does it
require that you become the superuser to make
device nodes.

Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a
computer at a specific time, but only if some
conditions are met. It works well on home
routers/firewalls where the machine can be
switched off every night and powered back up in
the morning. It can be configured to only shut
down the server after any computers which depend
on the server for Internet access have been shut
down.