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
- PackageKit-yum-plugin - Tell PackageKit to check for updates when yum exits
- at - Job spooling tools
- authconfig - Command line tool for setting up authentication from network services
- bash-completion - Programmable completion for Bash
- bc - GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc (a calculator)
- bind-utils - Utilities for querying DNS name servers
- bridge-utils - Utilities for configuring the linux ethernet bridge
- brltty - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix
- btrfs-progs - Userspace programs for btrfs
- bzip2 - A file compression utility
- chrony - An NTP client/server
- cifs-utils - Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
- coolkey - CoolKey PKCS #11 module
- crontabs - Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs
- cryptsetup - A utility for setting up encrypted disks
- cyrus-sasl-plain - PLAIN and LOGIN authentication support for Cyrus SASL
- dbus - D-BUS message bus
- dmraid - dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library)
- dos2unix - Text file format converters
- 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 - Settings tool for Ethernet NICs
- fedora-release-notes - Release Notes
- finger - The finger client
- fprintd-pam - PAM module for fingerprint authentication
- ftp - The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client
- gnupg2 - Utility for secure communication and data storage
- gpgme - GnuPG Made Easy - high level crypto API
- 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
- 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
- jwhois - Internet whois/nicname client
- krb5-workstation - Kerberos 5 programs for use on workstations
- lftp - A sophisticated file transfer program
- logrotate - Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files
- lsof - A utility which lists open files on a Linux/UNIX system
- mailcap - Helper application and MIME type associations for file types
- man-db - Tools for searching and reading man pages
- man-pages - Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project
- mdadm - The mdadm program controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays)
- 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
- 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 - An open source SSH client applications
- pam_krb5 - A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5
- pam_pkcs11 - PKCS #11/NSS PAM login module
- passwdqc - A password/passphrase strength checking and policy enforcement toolset
- pciutils - PCI bus related utilities
- pcmciautils - PCMCIA utilities and initialization programs
- pinfo - An info file viewer
- plymouth - Graphical Boot Animation and Logger
- pm-utils - Power management utilities and scripts for Fedora
- prelink - An ELF prelinking utility
- psacct - Utilities for monitoring process activities
- quota - System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage
- rdate - Tool for getting the date/time from a remote machine
- rdist - Maintains identical copies of files on multiple machines
- reiserfs-utils - Tools for creating, repairing, and debugging ReiserFS filesystems
- rng-tools - 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
- sssd - System Security Services Daemon
- 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 Administration 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 - File system tree viewer
- unzip - A utility for unpacking zip files
- 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
- wireless-tools - Wireless ethernet configuration tools
- words - A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory
- xfsprogs - Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
- ypbind - The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain
- yum-langpacks - Langpacks plugin for yum
- yum-presto - Presto plugin for yum
- yum-utils - Utilities based around the yum package manager
- zip - A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP