MiniOS Package List

This document provides a comprehensive overview of all packages included in different MiniOS editions. MiniOS comes in three main editions, each with a different set of pre-installed software:

• Standard - Minimal system with basic functionality
• Toolbox - System administration and diagnostic tools
• Ultra - Complete desktop environment with applications

Console utilities and system packages

⚙️ Core system packages

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
minios-tools	✅	✅	✅	Core tools and scripts for MiniOS.
minios-welcome	✅	✅	✅	Welcome message in browser.
minios-live-config	✅	✅	✅	Configuration scripts for Live system.
minios-live-config-systemd	✅	✅	✅	Live system configuration for systemd.
minios-live-config-doc	✅	✅	✅	Documentation for minios-live-config.
user-setup	✅	✅	✅	User configuration utility.
linux-base	✅	✅	✅	Base scripts for Linux system.
kbd	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for managing keyboard layout in console.
keyboard-configuration	✅	✅	✅	Keyboard configuration system.
locales	✅	✅	✅	Libraries and data for localization (language support).
console-setup	✅	✅	✅	Console font and encoding configuration.
systemd-timesyncd	✅	✅	✅	Service for network time synchronization.
polkitd / policykit-1 / pkexec	✅	✅	✅	Framework for managing system service privileges.

📦 Package and software management

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
apt-transport-https	✅	✅	✅	Allows using repositories over HTTPS protocol.
gettext-base	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for software internationalization and localization.
man-db	✅	✅	✅	System for viewing manual pages (man).
bash-completion	✅	✅	✅	Provides command auto-completion in Bash shell.

🌐 Network utilities

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
network-manager / connman	✅	✅	✅	Network connection managers.
dnsmasq-base	✅	✅	✅	Lightweight DNS and DHCP server (base files).
wpasupplicant	✅	✅	✅	Utility for connecting to secure Wi-Fi networks (WPA/WPA2).
iputils-ping	✅	✅	✅	ping utility for checking host availability.
ssh	✅	✅	✅	Client and server for secure remote connections (SSH).
wget	✅	✅	✅	Utility for downloading files from network.
curl	✅	✅	✅	Utility for data transfer using various protocols.
ipset	✅	✅	✅	Utility for administering IP address sets in kernel.
whois	✅	✅	✅	Client for getting domain name and IP information.
nmap	❌	✅	✅	Powerful network scanner and security auditing tool.
ncat	❌	✅	✅	Enhanced version of netcat from nmap suite.
ndiff	❌	✅	✅	Utility for comparing nmap scan results.
iperf3	❌	✅	✅	Tool for measuring network bandwidth.
netcat	❌	✅	✅	Network utility for reading/writing data over TCP/IP.
netcat-openbsd	❌	✅	✅	Alternative netcat implementation from OpenBSD.
open-iscsi	❌	❌	✅	Client (initiator) for working with iSCSI storage.
tgt	❌	❌	✅	Server (target) for providing iSCSI storage.

💾 Disk and filesystem management

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
parted	✅	✅	✅	Program for creating and modifying disk partitions.
dosfstools	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for creating and checking FAT filesystems.
ntfs-3g	✅	✅	✅	Driver for reading and writing NTFS partitions.
mdadm	✅	✅	✅	Utility for managing software RAID arrays.
hdparm	✅	✅	✅	Utility for configuring and viewing hard disk parameters.
sdparm	✅	✅	✅	Utility for accessing SCSI/SATA/SAS device parameters.
btrfs-progs	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for working with Btrfs filesystem.
xfsprogs	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for working with XFS filesystem.
exfat-utils	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for exFAT filesystem (legacy implementation).
exfat-fuse	✅	✅	✅	FUSE module for exFAT filesystem support.
exfatprogs	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for creating and checking exFAT filesystem.
cifs-utils	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for mounting Windows network shares (Samba/CIFS).
nfs-common	✅	✅	✅	Common files for NFS filesystem support (client).
smartmontools	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for monitoring disk health via S.M.A.R.T.
gpart	❌	✅	✅	Utility for "guessing" partition table on damaged disks.
mtools	❌	✅	✅	Set of utilities for accessing floppies and MS-DOS partitions.
gddrescue	❌	✅	✅	Tool for copying data from damaged media.
zfsutils-linux	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for managing ZFS pools and filesystem.
davfs2	❌	✅	✅	Allows mounting WebDAV resources as local filesystem.
f2fs-tools	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with F2FS filesystem.
hfsutils	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with "classic" Apple filesystem (HFS).
hfsprogs	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for creating and checking HFS+ filesystem.
jfsutils	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with JFS filesystem.
reiserfsprogs	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with ReiserFS (v3) filesystem.
reiser4progs	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with Reiser4 filesystem.
udftools	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with UDF filesystem (DVD/Blu-ray).
nilfs-tools	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with log-structured NILFS2 filesystem.
sshfs	❌	✅	✅	Mount remote filesystem over SSH.
lvm2	❌	✅	✅	Logical Volume Manager.
cryptsetup	❌	✅	✅	Utility for setting up encrypted partitions (LUKS).
zulucrypt-cli	❌	✅	✅	CLI for managing encrypted volumes (LUKS, VeraCrypt, etc.).
zulumount-cli	❌	✅	✅	CLI for mounting volumes managed by zulucrypt.

💻 System utilities and monitoring

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
pciutils	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for viewing PCI device information.
usbutils	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for viewing USB device information.
psmisc	✅	✅	✅	Set of utilities for working with processes (fuser, killall).
lsof	✅	✅	✅	Shows which files are used by which processes.
htop	✅	✅	✅	Interactive process monitor.
rfkill	✅	✅	✅	Tool for enabling/disabling wireless devices.
file	✅	✅	✅	Determines file type.
usb-modeswitch	✅	✅	✅	Switches USB device modes (e.g., modems).
ncdu	✅	✅	✅	Disk usage analyzer with ncurses interface.
lshw	❌	✅	✅	Displays detailed hardware information.
screen	❌	✅	✅	Terminal multiplexer, allows managing sessions.
nmon	❌	✅	✅	Utility for monitoring system performance.
inxi	❌	✅	✅	Script for collecting and displaying detailed system information.

🗜️ Archivers and compression

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
zip	✅	✅	✅	Archiver for creating and extracting .zip files.
unzip	✅	✅	✅	Utility for extracting .zip archives.
xz-utils	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for data compression using LZMA/XZ algorithm.
zstd	✅	✅	✅	Utility for data compression using Zstandard.
lz4	✅	✅	✅	Utility for very fast data compression.
liblz4-tools	✅	✅	✅	Additional tools for lz4 format.
bzip2	✅	✅	✅	Utility for data compression using bzip2 algorithm.
7zip	✅	✅	✅	Powerful archiver with support for many formats, including 7z.
pv	❌	✅	✅	Utility for monitoring data transfer progress through pipe.
pigz	❌	✅	✅	Parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of gzip.
pixz	❌	✅	✅	Parallel indexable implementation of xz.
plzip	❌	✅	✅	Parallel implementation of lzip.
lrzip	❌	✅	✅	Long-range archiver, efficient for large files.
lzop	❌	✅	✅	Very fast compression utility.
pbzip2	❌	✅	✅	Parallel implementation of bzip2.
cabextract	❌	✅	✅	Utility for extracting Microsoft .cab archives.

🕵️ Recovery and forensics

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
clonezilla	❌	✅	✅	Tool for disk cloning and backup.
testdisk	❌	✅	✅	Utility for recovering deleted partitions and files.
chntpw	❌	✅	✅	Utility for resetting Windows passwords.
reglookup	❌	✅	✅	Utility for reading and analyzing Windows registry.
hexedit	❌	✅	✅	Simple hexadecimal editor for console.

☁️ Virtualization and containers

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
open-vm-tools	❌	✅	✅	Set of utilities for improved VMware integration.
hyperv-daemons	❌	✅	✅	Services for integration with Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
qemu-system-x86	❌	✅	✅	Emulator for running x86/x86_64 operating systems.
qemu-utils	❌	✅	✅	Utilities for working with QEMU disk images.
libvirt-daemon-system	❌	✅	✅	Daemon for managing virtual machines.
virt-what	❌	✅	✅	Script for detecting if system is running in VM.
uidmap	❌	❌	✅	Utilities for working with user namespaces.
docker.io	❌	❌	✅	Application containerization platform.
docker-compose	❌	❌	✅	Tool for managing multi-container Docker applications.
lazydocker	❌	❌	✅	Terminal UI for managing Docker and Docker Compose.
selinux-policy-default	❌	❌	✅	Default SELinux security policy.

🧩 Miscellaneous

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
mc	✅	✅	✅	Midnight Commander file manager.
gpg	✅	✅	✅	GNU Privacy Guard - encryption and signing utility.
gnupg	✅	✅	✅	Complete GNU Privacy Guard suite.
squashfs-tools	✅	✅	✅	Utilities for creating and extracting SquashFS images.
xorriso	✅	✅	✅	Utility for creating and burning ISO-9660 images.
genisoimage	✅	✅	✅	Creates ISO-9660 filesystem images.
eject	✅	✅	✅	Utility for ejecting removable media (CD/DVD/USB).
fuse3 / fuse	✅	✅	✅	Framework for creating userspace filesystems.
libfuse2	✅	✅	✅	Compatibility library for legacy FUSE applications.
memtest86+	❌	✅	✅	Program for testing RAM.
xmount	❌	✅	✅	Tool for mounting disk images of various formats.
aria2	❌	✅	✅	Multi-protocol download manager.
fio	❌	✅	✅	Advanced tool for disk I/O performance testing and benchmarking (Flexible I/O Tester).
bonnie++	❌	✅	✅	Benchmark for testing filesystem performance.
iozone3	❌	✅	✅	Benchmark for testing disk I/O performance.
stress	❌	✅	✅	Tool for creating system load (CPU, memory, I/O).
sysbench	❌	✅	✅	Comprehensive benchmark for testing CPU, memory, I/O, databases.

Firmware and drivers

📦 Drivers (DKMS)

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
broadcom-sta-dkms	✅	✅	✅	Proprietary Broadcom 802.11 STA driver for Wi-Fi cards. Required for many laptops with Broadcom chips.
zfs-dkms	❌	✅	✅	Kernel modules for ZFS filesystem support.
realtek-rtl8821au-dkms	✅	✅	✅	DKMS driver for Realtek RTL8812AU/8821AU Wi-Fi chipsets.
realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms	✅	✅	✅	DKMS driver for various Realtek RTL88xxAU series Wi-Fi chipsets.
realtek-rtl8188eus-dkms	✅	✅	✅	DKMS driver for Realtek RTL8188EUS Wi-Fi chipsets.
realtek-rtl8814au-dkms	✅	✅	✅	DKMS driver for Realtek RTL8814AU Wi-Fi chipsets.

🔌 Firmware

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
firmware-linux-free	✅	✅	✅	Collection of free (license-wise) firmware for various hardware.
firmware-linux-nonfree	✅	✅	✅	Metapackage including all non-free (proprietary) firmware.
firmware-atheros	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for wireless network cards on Atheros chips.
firmware-iwlwifi	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Intel Wireless (Wi-Fi) network cards.
firmware-zd1211	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Wi-Fi devices based on ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B.
firmware-realtek	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for various Realtek devices (network cards, Bluetooth, etc.).
firmware-bnx2	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II network adapters.
firmware-brcm80211	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Broadcom/Cypress 802.11 wireless cards.
firmware-cavium	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Cavium network processors and adapters.
firmware-ipw2x00	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for legacy Intel Pro/Wireless 2100/2200/2915 cards.
firmware-libertas	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless cards.
firmware-ti-connectivity	✅	✅	✅	Firmware for Texas Instruments combo chips (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth).
firmware-b43-installer	✅	✅	✅	Installer for Broadcom B43 legacy wireless card firmware.
firmware-sof-signed	✅	✅	✅	Signed firmware for Sound Open Firmware platform (audio DSP).

Basic GUI

🖥️ Graphics system (Xorg)

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
xserver-xorg	✅	✅	✅	Main X.Org graphics system server.
xserver-xorg-video-all	✅	✅	✅	Metapackage installing all 2D video drivers for X.Org.
xserver-xorg-video-intel	✅	✅	✅	Video driver for Intel integrated graphics.
xserver-xorg-input-all	✅	✅	✅	Metapackage installing all input device drivers (mouse, keyboard).
xinit	✅	✅	✅	Utility for starting X server.
xterm	✅	✅	✅	Standard terminal emulator for X.
blackbox or openbox	✅	✅	✅	Lightweight window managers.
libxcursor1	✅	✅	✅	Library for working with X11 cursors.
breeze-cursor-theme	✅	✅	✅	Breeze cursor theme from KDE.
x11-utils	✅	✅	✅	Set of basic X11 utilities.
wmctrl	✅	✅	✅	Utility for controlling windows from command line.
xdotool	✅	✅	✅	Utility for simulating keyboard and mouse input.
libdrm-intel1	✅	✅	✅	Userspace library for Intel DRM (Direct Rendering Manager).
libgl1-mesa-dri	✅	✅	✅	Free OpenGL implementation for direct rendering.
libglu1-mesa	✅	✅	✅	Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU).

🔌 Remote access (XRDP)

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
xrdp and xorgxrdp	❌	✅	✅	Server for connecting to graphical desktop via RDP protocol.

🎨 Interface components

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
librsvg2-common	✅	✅	✅	Library for rendering SVG images.
adwaita-icon-theme-antix	✅	✅	✅	Adwaita icon theme.
elementary-minios-icon-theme	✅	✅	✅	Special elementary icon theme for MiniOS.

XFCE

🖼️ Desktop environment (XFCE)

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
dbus-x11	✅	✅	✅	Starts D-Bus message bus in X11 session, necessary for inter-application communication.
libxfce4ui-utils	✅	✅	✅	Libraries with common widgets and utilities for XFCE interface.
thunar	✅	✅	✅	Default file manager in XFCE.
thunar-volman	✅	✅	✅	Manages automatic mounting of removable media in Thunar.
xfce4-appfinder	✅	✅	✅	Utility for quickly finding and launching applications.
xfce4-panel	✅	✅	✅	XFCE desktop panel.
xfce4-session	✅	✅	✅	XFCE session manager, controls session startup and shutdown.
xfce4-settings	✅	✅	✅	XFCE settings control center.
xfconf	✅	✅	✅	Configuration system for XFCE.
xfdesktop4	✅	✅	✅	Manages desktop: wallpapers, icons, menu.
xfwm4	✅	✅	✅	XFCE window manager.
greybird-gtk-theme	✅	✅	✅	Popular and clean GTK theme, often used in XFCE.
xfce4-xkb-plugin	✅	✅	✅	Panel plugin for switching keyboard layouts.
xfce4-notifyd	❌	✅	✅	Daemon for displaying desktop notifications.
menulibre	❌	✅	✅	Advanced menu editor for GTK environments.
network-manager-gnome	✅	✅	✅	Graphical applet for managing network connections (NetworkManager).

🛠️ System and GUI utilities

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
gvfs-backends	✅	✅	✅	Set of backends for GVfs, provides access to FTP, SFTP, SMB, etc. through file manager.
open-vm-tools-desktop	❌	✅	✅	Components for improved guest OS integration with VMware (clipboard, resolution changes).
gtk-update-icon-cache	❌	✅	✅	Utility for updating GTK icon theme cache.
libglib2.0-bin	✅	✅	✅	Binary utilities for GLib 2.0 library.
at-spi2-core	✅	✅	✅	Protocol and libraries for accessibility support (screen readers, etc.).
qt5/qt6-gtk-platformtheme	❌	✅	✅	Plugins for Qt5/Qt6 applications to use GTK theme for consistent appearance.
policykit-1-gnome	✅	✅	✅	PolicyKit authentication agent for GTK environments, prompts for password for privileged actions.
libxml2-utils	✅	✅	✅	Command-line utilities for working with XML files (e.g., xmllint).
xmlstarlet	✅	✅	✅	Powerful command-line tool for parsing, transforming, and editing XML.

🧰 Applications

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	ℹ️ Package information
minios-installer	✅	✅	✅	Graphical MiniOS system installer.
minios-configurator	✅	✅	✅	MiniOS system configurator.
mintstick	✅	✅	✅	Utility for formatting USB drives and writing ISO images.
mousepad	✅	✅	✅	Simple and fast text editor for XFCE.
ristretto	✅	✅	✅	Simple and fast image viewer for XFCE.
Web browsers
firefox-esr	✅	✅	✅	Firefox web browser with Extended Support Release (ESR). Stable version receiving security updates for extended period.
Multimedia
vlc	❌	✅	✅	Powerful and popular media player supporting many formats.
vlc-plugin-bittorrent	❌	✅	✅	VLC plugin for playing video directly from torrent files.
vlc-plugin-samba	❌	✅	✅	VLC plugin for accessing files on Samba (Windows) network shares.
vlc-l10n	❌	✅	✅	Localization packages for VLC interface.
gimp	❌	❌	✅	Powerful raster graphics editor, Adobe Photoshop alternative.
obs-studio	❌	❌	✅	Program for recording and streaming video from screen and other sources.
obs-plugins	❌	❌	✅	Additional plugins and effects for OBS Studio.
inkscape	❌	❌	✅	Professional vector graphics editor, Adobe Illustrator alternative.
blender	❌	❌	✅	Professional 3D graphics, animation, and video creation suite.
audacity	❌	❌	✅	Popular audio editor for recording and processing sound.
rawtherapee	❌	❌	✅	Advanced editor for processing RAW photographs.
Office and Documents
pdfarranger	❌	✅	✅	Simple utility for merging, splitting, and rearranging PDF pages.
libreoffice	❌	❌	✅	Full office suite (word processor, spreadsheets, presentations).
libreoffice-gtk3	❌	❌	✅	LibreOffice integration with GTK3 theme for consistent appearance.
libreoffice-style-elementary	❌	❌	✅	Elementary icon theme for LibreOffice.
fonts-open-sans	❌	❌	✅	Popular and readable Open Sans font.
System utilities (GUI)
gparted	❌	✅	✅	Graphical disk partition editor.
gsmartcontrol	❌	✅	✅	Graphical interface for smartmontools utility (disk monitoring).
baobab	❌	✅	✅	Graphical disk usage analyzer.
hardinfo	❌	✅	✅	Utility for collecting and displaying detailed system and hardware information.
virt-manager	❌	✅	✅	Graphical interface for managing virtual machines via libvirt.
gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0	❌	✅	✅	Library for SPICE protocol integration (remote VM access).
doublecmd-gtk	❌	✅	✅	Two-panel file manager similar to Total Commander.
onboard	❌	✅	✅	On-screen keyboard for people with disabilities.
grsync	❌	✅	✅	Graphical interface for powerful rsync synchronization utility.
rescuezilla	❌	✅	✅	Simple tool for creating disk backups and recovery, Clonezilla alternative.
kdiskmark	❌	✅	✅	Tool for testing disk performance, CrystalDiskMark alternative.
qdiskinfo	❌	✅	✅	Tool for displaying disk information, CrystalDiskInfo alternative.
bleachbit	❌	✅	✅	Utility for cleaning system of temporary and unnecessary files.
gtkhash	❌	✅	✅	Simple utility for calculating file hash sums.
czkawka / czkawka-gui	❌	✅	✅	Utility for finding and removing duplicate files, empty folders, etc.
zulucrypt-gui	❌	✅	✅	Graphical interface for managing encrypted volumes.
zulumount-gui	❌	✅	✅	Graphical interface for mounting encrypted volumes.
keepassxc	❌	✅	✅	Cross-platform password manager.
guymager	❌	✅	✅	Tool for forensic disk copying (creating images).
isomaster	❌	✅	✅	Graphical editor for ISO disk images.
qphotorec	❌	✅	✅	Graphical shell for PhotoRec utility (file recovery).
veracrypt	❌	✅	✅	Program for creating and managing encrypted containers and disks.
wxhexeditor	❌	✅	✅	Advanced hexadecimal editor for large files.
synaptic	❌	❌	✅	Classic graphical package manager for Debian/Ubuntu.
eddy / eddy-handler	❌	❌	✅	Simple graphical installer for local .deb packages.
Network applications (GUI)
wireshark	❌	✅	✅	Powerful network traffic analyzer.
remmina	❌	✅	✅	Remote desktop client with RDP, VNC, SSH, and other protocol support.
remmina-plugin-rdp	❌	✅	✅	Plugin for RDP protocol support in Remmina.
remmina-plugin-vnc	❌	✅	✅	Plugin for VNC protocol support in Remmina.
gnome-nettool	❌	✅	✅	Set of graphical network utilities (ping, traceroute, port scan).
zenmap	❌	✅	✅	Official graphical interface for nmap network scanner.
x11vnc	❌	✅	✅	VNC server that allows remote control of current X session.
uget	❌	✅	✅	Graphical download manager.
android-file-transfer	❌	✅	✅	Utility for transferring files from Android devices via MTP protocol.
Development
codium	❌	✅	✅	Free build of VS Code editor without Microsoft telemetry.