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.

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

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.

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.

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.

System Configurator is a utility for automatically configuring networking and bootstrapping in a Linux Distribution and Architecture agnostic way.

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

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.

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,

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!

The Node Director is a tool for managing distributed, hetergeneous UNIX Systems. Its functionality includes System Configuration, Application Distribution, NIS & NIS+ Management, User Creation and Dynamic System Documentation.

troll (ex patchDownload) is an automatic agent that patches systems with security considerations. <ol> <li>get the list of available patches <li>compare to the installed <li>check integrity <li>install those that are ok and don't break dependencies

Cache .deb files for multiple machines in a portable repository. Works for Debian and Ubuntu (so far). Allows easy ongoing maintenance of multiple machines by reducing the net traffic, and of course speeding up the installs on each local machine.

rpmerizor is a Perl script that allows you to create an RPM package from installed software simply by specifying files on the command line and answering a few questions.

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.

This toolbox provides two command line programs that help remove components from Windows 7. The xml creator reads information from Windows 7 manifest files and builds xml files. The removal utility reads the xml files and removes all the files, directories, and registry entries from a Windows 7 installation source. This project is similar to RT7Lite and what 7Customizer aims to do, simply without any other functionality other than removing components.

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

Administration tools intended for use on Caldera OpenLinux, some tools will be useable on multiple distributions. Current tools include Printer Administration, SMB Connection Administration and RPM search and extraction tools.

Ka is a set of tools designed to help the installation and later the use/administration of a cluster of PC's under Linux. It currently includes a solution for the parallel installation of Linux on many machines, and tools for deploying data or launching

Project Naranja will uses Padlock Security of VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboards in order to provide a toolkit to set up and use encrypted filesystems with Linux. NOTE: Files are now hosted at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/naranja/

The Universal Unix-Installer are 2 perl scripts that makes it easy to create a redistributable install package for binary executables on an unix platform(except Mac OSX). 1 perl script is for gathering the .so files 1 perl script for installing

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

Andutteye is an open source systems management platform that automates enterprise data centers and keeps them running. With Andutteye you can control your Linux and Unix system from a central point of operation.

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