Open Source Unix Shell System Software

BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals. BGINFO4X is designed for pretty print useful information (CPU model, Hostname, IP address, OS version, Office version, and much more ...) on your desktop background or wallpaper. See the screenshots to see BGINFO4X in action. BGINFO4X is Multi Platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BSD). BGINFO4X is Highly Customizable. BGINFO4X is Open Source. BGINFO4X comes with lots of Features. See the main Features below on this page. Find more information in http://sourceforge.net/p/bginfo4x/wiki/BGINFO4X/

This shell script prints short and uniform information about OS such as: CPU, RAM, OS name and version, kernel version, hostname, system load, current processes, network interfaces, total logged in users, hard disks, runlevel, etc. No root or any special superuser's rights are required. Runs under Linux, Android (Termux), Windows (Msys2 and Cygwin), FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD and other Unix-like systems.

Gobisoft is a batch package builder for applications, it builds a self-install package of your programs. Creates a stand alone executable file that performs the (secured installation and removing) of the elements necessary to distribute your applications. The software offers many possibilities, such as executing commands before and after installation.

Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.

pofig - portable shell script for probing base system properties: OS, OS version, kernel version, distro, distro version, architecture. It detects: 19 operating systems, 11 major linux distros, 13 CPU types. See wiki for more information and examples.

cmdok checks that specified commands are OK. If command is OK than it exists in PATH and can be run. It is a simple, small and portable Bash script. It is useful in software packages that want to check that some commands exist before trying to run them. See wiki for more information and examples.

yoDownet is an open-source && free graphical download manager project that tries to be simple and minimal, also for sake of humor it's described as "The Previous Generation Graphical Download Manager".