Open Source Perl Installers

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

Fink brings the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg, all with full dependency tracking.

ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.

This is a system for fully automating Windows 2000 and XP installations, both OS and applications. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ for details.

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. The current configuration variables and status data is retrieved and presented in a brief format along with some basic performance suggestions. MySQLTuner supports ~300 indicators for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server in this last version. MySQLTuner is maintained and indicator collect is increasing week after week supporting a lot of configuration such as Galera Cluster, TokuDB, Performance schema, Linux OS metrics, InnoDB, MyISAM, Aria, etc. It is extremely important for you to fully understand each change you make to a MySQL database server. If you don't understand portions of the script's output, or if you don't understand the recommendations, you should consult a knowledgeable DBA or system administrator that you trust. Always test your changes on staging environments.

Linux is an excellent environment for deploying diskless thin clients. Whether you are installing a 2nd workstation at home, 50 workstations in a CyberCafe or 500 workstations in a major university or corporation, the LTSP can help you be successful.

UBCD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from most CDROM drives on Intel-compatible machines, no operating system required. The cd includes many diagnostic utilities and can also be used to provide shared internet access or browse the web.

SystemImager is software that makes the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines relatively easy. It makes software distribution, configuration, and operating system updates easy, and can also be used for content distribution.

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

Morphix is a modulair distribution, with live-cd support and without any configuration (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works... out of the box) see www.morphix.org

CleanHome - cleans up users $HOME directory by analyzing "." config-files/directories against a collaborative maintained database. Its pluggable approach makes it easy to develope various extensions!

SupermonX is a utility to create snapshots of the file system, registry, and kernel drivers and services of Windows PCs. Using snapshots, SupermonX can report or verify the changes in systems made by program installations or activity.

Mondo Rescue is a GPL suite designed to create disaster recovery or cloning physical or virtual media from which you'll be able to boot in order to restore or clone your original system. It does that in an automatic or interactive way allowing modifs

A stable and fast Linux/Unix toolset to aid in the security and ease of use of *Nix.

This is a modified version of the Webmin interface for SquidGuard as written by Tim Niemueller. This webmin interface has been updated to repair several bugs, mainly in reference to use of the blacklists.

quattor is a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable and modular toolsuite for the automated installation, configuration and management of clusters and farms running UNIX derivates like Linux and Solaris. Quattor no longer uses SourceForge for hosting, please see http://github.com/quattor for source code and http://www.quattor.org for more up-to-date information about the project.

apt4rpm provides tools to create and maintain an apt, yum or metadata repository. The main tool is aptate which searches rpm repositories storing the rpms in the correct apt, yum or metadata component. If you're looking for the apt client software,

Graviton is a framework which facilitates management of Linux hosts. Tools for rpm and deb packages are provided. Email reports tell you exactly what's changed or going to change on your systems. Please read the documentation for concepts and usage

Jail Chroot Project is an attempt of write a tool that builds a chrooted environment. The main goal of Jail is to be as simple as possible, and highly portable. The most difficult step when building a chrooted environment is to set up the right libraries

LPMtool is a package management tool

webmin module for bigbrother

A thin, role-based, single image system for scalable cluster management. oneSIS is a simple, flexible method for managing one or more clusters from a single filesystem image. It is easy to deploy, and it simplifies the task of cluster administration.

A FreeBSD console utility that finds, lists and possibly removes unreferenced packages. It lets the user choose which packages to remove and which ones to keep. It maintains a keep-list file, so previously kept packages will be skipped automatically.

sinstall is a perl script used to install and manage source packages. Includes PORTS for non-standart programs, CVS build, linux from scratch, ftp downloads, software updates and more.

ANI provides a fully automated, unattended setup environment for Windows OS (NT / 2000 / XP). Based on a Linux single floppy boot media, high flexibility, portability and marginal maintenance is warranted. SMB / NFS capability allows central I386 sources