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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Expect.pm is a perl implementation of the popular Expect extension for Tcl/Tk by Don Libes. You'll also find the IO::Tty and IO::Stty Perl modules here.

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

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

MondoRescue is the premier GPL disaster recovery suite for Linux/FreeBSD

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,

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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.

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

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.

MLN (Manage Large Networks) is a perl program used to manage a set of User-Mode-Linux instances or Xen instances. From a configuration file, it is possible to specify a large complex network of e.g. Xen instances, which are each configured as specified.

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

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!

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

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.

<b>relink</b> is a <i>package management tool</i> for organization and management of software packages. It should run on any UNIX platform that runs PERL. Similar tools include: rpm(REDHAT/Mandrake), pkgadd(Slackware/SUN), stow(GNU) and depot(CMU)

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.

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