Android tools for rooting a phone under linux.

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Hi!
It seems there are some tools for rooting and enable fastboot and such even for linux ofcourse.
However is anyone here familiar with some of the tools?
What i want is mainly command line tools but if there are accessible gui tools i am happy to try them out.
Some site suggested to install eclipse for this purpose along with some other stuff such as android sdk but i am not sure if these are accessible or not.
Thanks.
/Anders.