Base
This group includes a minimal set of packages. Useful for creating small router/firewall boxes, for example.
- NetworkManager - Network connection manager and user applications
- acpid - ACPI Event Daemon
- anacron - A cron-like program that can run jobs lost during downtime.
- anyremote - Remote control through bluetooth or IR connection
- apmd - Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS utilities for laptops.
- aspell - A spelling checker
- aspell-en - English dictionaries for Aspell
- at - Job spooling tools.
- authconfig - Command line tool for setting up authentication from network services
- authd - A RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon
- bc - GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc (a calculator).
- bind-utils - Utilities for querying DNS name servers
- bluez - Bluetooth libraries
- bridge-utils - Utilities for configuring the linux ethernet bridge
- brltty - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix
- btrfs-progs - Utilities for btrfs filesystems
- bzip2 - A file compression utility.
- ccid - Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver
- coolkey - CoolKey PKCS #11 module
- cpuspeed - CPU Frequency adjusting daemon
- crontabs - Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs.
- cryptsetup-luks - A utility for setting up encrypted filesystems
- cyrus-sasl-plain - PLAIN and LOGIN authentication support for Cyrus SASL
- device-mapper-multipath - Tools to manage multipath devices using device-mapper
- dhcpv6-client - DHCPv6 client
- dmraid - Device-mapper RAID tool and library
- dos2unix - Text file format converter
- dosfstools - Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux
- dump - Programs for backing up and restoring ext2/ext3 filesystems
- ed - The GNU line editor
- eject - A program that ejects removable media using software control.
- ethtool - Ethernet settings tool for PCI ethernet cards
- fbset - Tools for managing a frame buffer's video mode properties.
- finger - The finger client.
- ftp - The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client.
- gnupg - A GNU utility for data encryption and digital signatures
- gnupg2 - A GNU utility for data encryption and digital signatures
- gpart - A program for recovering corrupt partition tables
- gpgme - GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME)
- gpm - A mouse server for the Linux console
- hardlink - Create a tree of hardlinks
- hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes.
- hunspell - A spell checker and morphological analyzer library
- hunspell-en - English hunspell dictionaries
- iptstate - A top-like display of IP Tables state table entries
- irda-utils - Utilities for infrared communication between devices.
- irqbalance - IRQ balancing daemon.
- iscsi-initiator-utils - iSCSI daemon and utility programs
- jfsutils - IBM JFS utility programs
- jwhois - Internet whois/nicname client
- kexec-tools - The kexec/kdump userspace component.
- krb5-workstation - Kerberos 5 programs for use on workstations
- krbafs-utils - Kerberos/AFS utilities.
- ksh - The Original ATT Korn Shell
- lftp - Commandline ftp client
- lha - LHa file archiving utility with compress
- libselinux-utils - SELinux libselinux utilies
- logrotate - Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files
- logwatch - A log file analysis program
- lsof - A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX system
- lzma - LZMA utils
- mailcap - Associates helper applications with particular file types
- man - A set of documentation tools: man, apropos and whatis
- man-pages - Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project.
- mdadm - mdadm controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays)
- mgetty - A getty replacement for use with data and fax modems
- microcode_ctl - Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode
- mkbootdisk - Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system.
- mlocate - An utility for finding files by name
- mtools - Programs for accessing MS-DOS disks without mounting the disks
- mtr - A network diagnostic tool
- nano - A small text editor
- nc - Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP.
- nfs-utils - NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS server
- nilfs-utils - Utilities for NILFS filesystems
- nss_db - An NSS library for the Berkeley DB
- nss_ldap - NSS library and PAM module for LDAP
- ntfs-3g - Linux NTFS userspace driver
- ntfsprogs - NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities
- ntsysv - A tool to set the stop/start of system services in a runlevel.
- numactl - Library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines
- openssh-clients - The OpenSSH client applications
- pam_ccreds - Pam module to cache login credentials
- pam_krb5 - A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5
- pam_passwdqc - Pluggable password quality-control module
- pam_pkcs11 - PKCS #11/NSS PAM login module
- pam_smb - A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for use with SMB servers.
- parted - The GNU disk partition manipulation program.
- pax - POSIX File System Archiver
- pciutils - PCI bus related utilities
- pcmciautils - PCMCIA utilities and initialization programs
- pinfo - An info file viewer
- pm-utils - Power management utilities and scripts
- postfix - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
- prelink - An ELF prelinking utility
- psacct - Utilities for monitoring process activities.
- puppet - A network tool for managing many disparate systems
- puppet-server - Server for the puppet system management tool
- quota - System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage
- rdate - Tool for retrieving the date/time from another machine on your network.
- rdist - Maintains identical copies of files on multiple machines.
- readahead - Read a preset list of files into memory
- redhat-lsb - LSB support for Red Hat Linux
- reiser4progs - Utilities for reiser4 filesystems
- reiserfs-utils - ReiserFS utilities
- rng-utils - Random number generator related utilities
- rsh - Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp).
- rsync - A program for synchronizing files over a network
- sendmail - A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
- setuptool - A text mode system configuration tool
- smartmontools - Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
- sos - A set of tools to gather troubleshooting information from a system
- specspo - Fedora package descriptions, summaries, and groups.
- squashfs-tools - Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
- star - An archiving tool with ACL support
- stunnel - An SSL-encrypting socket wrapper
- sudo - Allows restricted root access for specified users
- symlinks - A utility which maintains a system's symbolic links
- system-config-firewall-tui - A text interface for basic firewall setup
- system-config-network-tui - The Network Adminstration Tool
- talk - Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting.
- tcp_wrappers - A security tool which acts as a wrapper for TCP daemons
- tcpdump - A network traffic monitoring tool.
- tcsh - An enhanced version of csh, the C shell
- telnet - The client program for the telnet remote login protocol.
- time - A GNU utility for monitoring a program's use of system resources.
- tmpwatch - A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed
- traceroute - Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
- tree - A utility which displays a tree view of the contents of directories
- unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter
- unzip - unpacks .zip files such as those made by pkzip under DOS
- usbutils - Linux USB utilities.
- vconfig - Linux 802.1q VLAN configuration utility
- wget - A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols
- which - Displays where a particular program in your path is located.
- wicd - A wireless and wired network manager
- wireless-tools - Wireless ethernet configuration tools
- words - A dictionary of English words for the /usr/dict directory.
- x86info - x86 processor information tool
- xfsprogs - Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
- ypbind - The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain.
- yum-updatesd - Update notification daemon
- yum-utils - Utilities based around the yum package manager
- zip - A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP.