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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

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

Project Discontinued

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

NRH-up2date is Not RedHat's up2date - a GPL server for the up2date client, free for general use

<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)

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.

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

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.

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

Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on Live! CD

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

An easy-to-use, self-configuring OpenBSD-based firewall with a web interface.

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

(AutomaticSystemConfiguration) The Idea is to have a complete Linux System installed and configured automatically, after doing choises of what to set up and save them to a bootable floppy-disc.

ATC is a system for configuring and controlling the pre and post building of Unix machines over the network. Predominately it uses JET to deploy Solaris hosts and Kickstart to deploy Linux hosts. Post build ATC is used to do configuration control.