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NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Windows installer development tool
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more. -
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Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers
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Rescatux
Easy to use Repair distribution for both Gnu/Linux and Windows systems
Rescatux is a GNU/Linux repair cd (and eventually also Windows) but it is not like other rescue disks. Rescatux comes with Rescapp. Rescapp is a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue and repair tasks. When the wizard is not able to solve your problem you can also enjoy of Rescatux unique support features: * Chat: Open the chat for asking help directly in Rescatux channel. * Share log: After running an option you can share its log (the action registry that it has done) so that in the chat they can help you better. O better, even, you can help debug and fix Rescatux bugs on the fly. * Share log on forum: Prepares a forum post alike text so that you can just copy and paste it in your favourite forum. Logs are nicely inserted into it with [CODE] symbols. * Boot Info Script: Run Boot Info Script option to share your computer configuration (specially boot one). -
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Super Grub2 Disk
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means. -
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Configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services. Includes fault correction software to automatically restart crashed or frozen JVMs. Critical when app is needed 24x7. Built for flexibility.
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AutoSet
Windows Apache/PHP/MariaDB(MySQL) Stack
오토셋은 윈도우 운영체제에 Apache HTTP Server, PHP, MySQL, CUBRID 등의 서버 제품을 한번에 설치해 주는 기능과 이렇게 설치된 프로그램을 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스(GUI)를 통해 쉽게 설정의 변경, 관리를 할 수 있도록 지원하는 프로그램입니다. AutoSet is a GUI based installer and administrative tool which enables to install Apache HTTP Server, PHP, MySQL, CUBRID and Other packages at once and helps easy set-ups and management. 이 프로그램은 누구나 무료로 다운로드해 사용할 수 있습니다. The program is free to download for anyone. -
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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.
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Lubi installs Ubuntu on Linux without a CD or partitioning. LVPM upgrades Wubi to dedicated partition installs. UNetbootin (liveUSB creator for Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, and other distros) has moved to http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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Both forward-chaining and backward-chaining rules (which may include python code) are compiled into python. Can also automatically assemble python programs out of python functions which are attached to backward-chaining rules. See pyke.sourceforge.ne
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A GUI Frontend to IzPack built with Java Swing to create an installer for your application. Installers are cross-platform, multi-language and very versatile to fit your needs.
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InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer and builder. InstallJammer is no longer under active development.
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PXES is a Linux micro distribution that will convert (or recycle) in minutes any compliant hardware into a versatile thin client capable of accessing any Unix/Linux XDMCP server, Microsoft Terminal Server through RDP protocol, Citrix ICA server or VNC se
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Unattended, A Windows deployment system
System for fully automating Windows installations
This is a system for fully automating Windows 2000 and XP installations, both OS and applications. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ for details. -
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One-JAR(TM) is a simple solution to a vexing problem in Java: how to distribute an application as a single jar-file, when it depends on multiple other jar-files. One-JAR uses a custom classloader to discover library jar files inside the main jar.
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innoextract
Tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup
Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine. NOTE: NEW VERSIONS WILL NOT BE UPLOADED TO SOURCEFORGE! Instead, use the official website at http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ -
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Unetbootinbitti
Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros
Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros. This is an upgraded version of Unetbootin focusing on Bittix linux 9 and above and Linux Mint and Linux Mint debian. Has Distrowatch.com link etc. -
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nQuake
A QuakeWorld package containing everything needed to play QW right now
NOTE: THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. Download from http://nquake.com Source code: http://github.com/nquake QuakeWorld is a very fragmented game. Installing QuakeWorld involves installing Quake, downloading a client, downloading textures, scripts, addons, maps and much more. nQuake does all this for you with a simple online installer. nQuake always installs a completely updated package of QuakeWorld that simply works. nQuake has become the standard within QuakeWorld, so even if you don't like the content of nQuake, it's a very good base for your installation. If you run into problems - simply install nQuake fresh and modify it until you are satisfied. Getting help with issues you bump into will be a lot easier if you started out with nQuake. -
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Unattended installation of several Linux(kickstart,preseed,autoyast) and Windows(2000,XP,2003,2003R2,Vista,7,8,,10,112008,2012,2016,2019,2022,2025). Features: inventory, software management, dhcp-ldap, dns-ldap, php-ssh, syslog-ng, rsyslog, switch managment, ldap browser, pxe manager, central cron management, license management, guacomole integration.
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DCP Setup Maker
Powerful cross-platform install builder
Great and powerful application to generate stable and multi-platform java installers. Watch a demo of DCP Setup Maker's installer being made in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF5Kyla7Hg Its intuitive UI and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex installers with large amounts of files. The whole process is done step by step through a wizard-like interface, filling in fields and setting up files to finally build your package. *Required: Java 1.6+ Powered by Java, IzPack, Apache Pivot, Apache Ant, Nuget, launch4j and Stax. Source code migrated to https://github.com/DevComPack/setupmaker -
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A web based GUI for managing PXE boot and optionally managing DHCP service. Also supports creating and serving Kickstart and preseed scripts. This provides a client install in one click. This is a generic framework created to work with anything that's PXE bootable. Adding new hosts can be done via "PXE enrollment" where the client PXE boots to enroll into OneClickKick. Easily integrated with existing naming sources such as NIS and LDAP for central lookup of host and mac address information. OneClickKIck can also be integrated with FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org) to allow adding and modifying hosts directly in IPA.
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Debian Install System
This command line utility installs Debian system non-interactively.
PROJECT MOVED: https://github.com/vstavrinov/install-debian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Boot Live CD, just type install-debian and after 5 minutes You will get bootable system. It supports software RAID and UEFI boot. All settings if not defined in config file or as command line options, will be set to it's defaults either as constant values or evaluated from running system. By default it chooses largest disk for installation. If there are more then one such disk of the same size, it makes RAID array. Separate partitions are used for /boot, and /, and logical volumes for /usr, /var, /tmp and /home. Only minimal disk space are allocated. You should expand (may be done online) logical volumes and file systems when You need to get more disk space. Also there are option to install system into single pre-mount point. In this case partitioning and mounting every part leave on Your own. -
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Unix GNU Windows
Packages to create a Unix like environment under MS-Windows
At this point this project is mainly wpkg which is a replica of dpkg and apt-get that works under Microsoft Windows and Unices. Since version 0.7.0 it works very nicely as it includes most of the important functionality of dpkg (i.e. most everything except dselect functions.) Otherwise, the Unix GNU Windows is expected to be a large set of packages that wpkg can handle. Packages of all the software available under MinGW and GnuWin32 so you can painlessly build a complete Unix like environment under Microsoft Windows. -
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Artica For Samba Appliance
NAS/File Sharing/PDC server in 5 Minutes
Artica For Samba Appliance is an Open source ISO based on Debian 6 that create a full NAS/File server using LDAP system with all necessaries features. It install Artica Web administration Console, a sexy Ajax interface to help you create shares and other filesystem tunes & tweaks -
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A high-quality JNLP client that can also be used as a component to provide applications with Java Network Launching Protocol features and support. Netx downloads code over the network, caches it, and runs it in a secure sandbox environment.
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nQuake2
A Quake 2 package containing everything needed to play Q2 right now!
nQuake2 is a Quake 2 package that downloads and installs the content you need to start playing Quake 2. The mods included are Action Quake II, CTF and Eraser bot. It also includes high-resolution textures to make Quake 2 look better than ever!
