‘burn’ is a command-line tool to create audio discs from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or WAV files, to backup data files, to create discs from ISO-9660 images, and to copy discs on-the-fly. It performs any of its functions in a single command, without requiring preparatory filesystem creation, etc.

The HylaFAX client software communicates with a HylaFAX server via TCP/IP.

This daemon allows telnet and tcp sessions to be established with a host's serial ports. Combined with a terminal emulator, this can be a very simple means to configure network devices or other equipment with a serial port. This is remarkably similar to the reverse telnet feature of some Cisco routers.

PortAudio is a portable audio I/O library designed for cross-platform support of audio. It uses a callback mechanism to request audio processing. Audio can be generated in various formats, including 32 bit floating point, and will be converted to the native format internally.

The NVENC Video Encoding library provides an interface to video encoder hardware on supported NVIDIA GPUs.

This metapackage will install packages useful for logging (including for contests) with Debian.