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- General Device Management

  • OpenHPI ("Hardware Platform Interface" implementation to provide a modular mechanism for adding new hardware and device support) (cvs) (ml)
  • Discoverer (Hardware reporting system) (ml)
  • Dmidecode (Hardware reporting system, using the SMBIOS/DMI specifications) (cvs)
  • lshw ("Lister Hardware". Hardware reporting system using code from the dmidecode project.)
  • prtdiag (Bash script based hardware reporting system, using: dmidecode, lspci and lm_sensors)

- Network Devices

  • ifplugd (GNU/Linux daemon which automatically activates/de-activates the ethernet device when the ethernet cable is plugged-in/pulled-out)
  • wol ('Wake On LAN'. Tool to turn-on/un-suspend a remote computer by issueing 'wol MAC-address'.) (cvs)
  • macc (GNU/Linux utility for viewing/manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces) (cvs) (ml)
  • Wireless Network Clients (from the Network Services section)
  • SNMP Clients (from the Network Services section)
  • IEEE1394Diag (KDE based IEEE1394 network management tool) (cvs) (ml) (forum)
  • LIRC (Infra-red signal encoding/decoding software toolkit for GNU/Linux systems. See also smartmenu.) (cvs) (ml)
  • Synergy (Network tool to share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computer systems, without needing special hardware.) (cvs)

- Disk Drives

  • hdparm (Utility for viewing and changing the IDE/ATA harddisk driver parameters)
  • smartmontools (Toolset to monitor SCSI and ATA harddisks using the SMART failure warning system) (cvs) (ml)
  • Cdpl (Utility to change the settings of a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM drive)

- CD & DVD Mastering

  • Audio CD & DVD Mastering Tools (from the Multimedia section)
  • Video CD & DVD Mastering Tools (from the Multimedia section)
  • cdrecord (CD-R/CD-RW/DVD image creation and burning software with support for SCSI, IDE/ATAPI and parallel-port drives. Cdrecord consist of a number of libraries and tools, including: cdrecord, cdda2wav and mkisofs) (DVD extension patches for cdrecord)
  • cdrdao (Create audio or mixed mode CD-R's in disk-at-once mode) (cvs) (ml)
  • (Bash shell script based CD burning tool)
  • Burgner (CD burning tool, which doesn't depend on cdrecord)
  • cdcontrol (CD burning tool that allows you to write to one or more CD burners at once)
  • mkCDrec (Make a bootable El-Torito disaster recovery image called CDrec.iso)
  • mkinitrd-cd (Tool to create the initrd images used for booting from CD-ROM)
  • bootcd2disk (Tool set to copy a running Debian GNU/Linux system on a bootable CD)
  • cdw (Ncurses based CD burning front-end for cdrecord and mkisofs)
  • Phaser (Perl script to help with CD burning)
  • K3B (KDE based CD burning tool) (cvs) (ml)
  • CDBO ("CD Bake Oven". KDE based CD burning tool, which can be used as a Kpart module)
  • Gnome Toaster (GNOME based CD burning tool) (ml)
  • Arson (KDE based CD burning tool) (cvs) (ml)
  • Disc-O-Matic (GTK+ based multiple CD burning tool)
  • X-CD-Roast (GTK+ based CD burning tool)
  • cdfs-src (Linux file system which allows all audio tracks and boot images on a CD to be accessed as normal files)
  • Linux UDF (Universal Disk Format FS) (cvs)
  • DVD+RW/+R Tools for Linux
  • disc-cover (Perl script, with FreeDB support, for creating CD labels in Latex, DVI, PDF or PostScript format)
  • cdcover (Python/Tk tool, with FreeDB support, for creating CD labels in PostScript format)
  • cdlabelgen (Perl script for creating CD labels in PostScript format. Inactive project.)

- Video Cards & Monitors

  • videogen (Console tool that generates XFree86 and/or fbset "Modelines" which tell your video card what signals to send to your monitor)
  • read-edid (Information gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors, useful when creating your XF86Config file)
  • atitvout (Utility to setup TV-out support for the ATI "Rage Mobility" video cards)
  • nv-tv-out (GTK+ based utility to setup TV-out support for the NVidia video cards) (cvs) (forum)
  • NVClock (GTK+ based tool to overclock several NVidia based video cards on GNU/Linux systems)

- Printers

  • LinuxPrinting.org (GNU/Linux printer support portal) (ml)
  • KDEPrint (Printing framework for KDE applications)
  • klpq (KDE frontend to lpq, lprm and lpc. It allows for viewing, deleting, or adjusting print jobs.)
  • GtkLP (GNOME based frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS queues)
  • gQueue (GNOME based frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS queues. Inactive project.)
  • GIMP-Print (Printer device drivers for: Canon, Epson, Lexmark, and PCL printers for use with Ghostscript, CUPS, Foomatic, and the GIMP)

- Digital Camera's

- Image Scanners

  • SANE ("Scanner Access Now Easy". Standard interface and tools for accessing raster image scanner hardware) (ml)
  • phpSANE (PHP based SANE frontend)
  • FlScan (FLTK based SANE frontend)

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