Helix, the Linux development tool, has been complemented with functionality for verification purposes and wireless applications. The following utilities help to verify, debug and evaluate performance on hardware and software in the Linux system:
net-tools
Tools to control the Linux network subsystem. Some of the tools available in this package have Busybox equivalents.
iperf
An application to test network performance.
hdparm
A tool to tune and set parameters related to IDE hard disk performance.
bonnie++
A utility to use in performance benchmarks for hard disks.
i2c-tools
Tools for I2C bus inspection.
coreboot
Coreboot is an open source BIOS. The package provides tools for BIOS programming and chipset inspection and not actual BIOS images.
sysfsutils
Tools for inspection and queries of the sysfs.
pci-utils
Tools for PCI bus inspection.
Wireless network application development is supported with a couple of added features in Helix. Scanning for network points, managing the communication with network points and implementing key encryption are a couple tasks that are facilitated with the following additional utilities in Helix:
wireless-tools
Tools to control the Linux wireless extensions.
wpa-supplicant
Client side tool to handle WPA negotiation and authentication.
Other added utilities are:
libusb
Userspace library for USB communication.
pcmciautils and pcmcia-cs
Tools for PCMCIA management and initialization.