Toshset is a command-line tool to allow access to much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface developed by Jonathan Buzzard. It can do things like set the hard drive spin-down time, turn off the display and set the fan speed without the help of the kernel. Toshset requires an experimental version of the toshiba_acpi kernel module with an ACPI-enabled kernel. Otherwise it works only if the laptop supports the old APM BIOS. (The last of these was produced something like 5 years ago) Please read README.Debian how to install the experimental version of the toshiba_acpi kernel module. (Ubuntu users don't need it)

Mbrola is Thierry Dutoit's phonemizer for multilingual speech synthesis. The various diphone databases are distributed on separate packages, but they must be used with and only with Mbrola because of license matters. Read the copyright for details.

This package contains programs useful inside cloud instance. It contains 'growpart' for resizing a partition during boot, which is normally done with the aid of cloud-init.

backup2l [backup-too-l] is a tool for autonomously generating, maintaining and restoring backups on a mountable file system (e. g. hard disk). In a default installation, backups are created regularly by a cron script.