Open Source Perl Software Distribution Software

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.

MoviX is a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing. eMoviX makes a CD able to play by itself all audio/video files it contains (DivX, XviD, QuickTime, MP3 etc.). MoviX&MoviX2 transform in secs yr PC in a powerful MM box.

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.

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,

The LAMPAS project is a combination of common Open Source tools that provides a unified system from where administrators, developers and other parties can manage a large application cluster. The underlying platform is LAMP based.

This is a transparent cache for Debian and RedHat packages (.deb and .rpm). It is based on apt-cacher available on Debian. It has been enhanced to handle RedHat repositories and files whose names are the same but the contents are different.

VA-Cluster Manager is a large scale server monitoring and management tool. Providing a modular architecture for adding new protocols and monitoring technology, VACM is extremely scalable.

Pkgutil, written in Perl and licensed under GPL, is a tool to make installation of CSW packages in Solaris easier. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are installed before the desired package automatically.

A small tool that provides ability to mirror any parts of Debian GNU/Linux distribution and any "apt oriented sources". It takes config similar to apt's "sources.list" and creates local mirror for given sources.

PerlCE provides pre-built perl binaries and some popular extensions for various WinCE platforms

Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on Live! CD

FullAuto is a groundbreaking secure programming framework that enables FULL API access to any number of simultaneous persistent SSH and SFTP connections to remote resources and devices. With FullAuto, connections are PERSISTANT enabling state preservation of file system navigations, environment manipulations, and user context shifting. Output and error messages from remote commands are returned accurately from both STDOUT and STDERR channels. With FullAuto persisent SSH/SFTP connections, automated processes can be DYNAMIC, intelligent and responsive - precisely in the same manner that highly trained professionals work with SSH/SFTP tools, to perform countless tasks manually. FullAuto works with the naked protocol, and connects directly with ordinary SSH/SFTP servers that already exist on nearly every UNIX platform, and many Windows and MAC systems. NO OTHER REMOTE SOFTWARE IS NEEDED. FullAuto is written entirely in Perl and has been tested on Linux, UNIX and Windows with Cygwin.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. This is a port of the RPM software, including rpmbuild and yum/APT-RPM, to Darwin and Mac OS X

TXAdmin (Trolls uniX Administration) is a Unix toolkit, containing mostly Shell and Perl scripts, to maintain, manage and monitor your Unix server park.

This project has a lively SVN repository for build recipes, over 1000 F/OSS softwares are available. The tool "pkgbuild" is for building packages on Solaris 11/OpenIndiana from RPM-like spec files. The tool also runs on OmniOS. If you want, you can create new style IPS packages and old style SVR4 packages for Solaris 10. The tool is not updated frequently, but the following "build recipes" for pkgbuild is updated every day. For a few hundred build-recipes see the sub-project "spec-files-extra" or "SFE". We already have stacks of e.g. multimedia players mplyer/vlc or postfix/dovecot/cyrus-sasl/spamfiltering. But there is so much more to be added! Volunteers to the build-recipes are always welcome. Please ask on the mailing list or irc://irc.freenode.org/#pkgbuild Please proceed now with the link below and remember to visit "SFE" on the left and browse through the available packages list in SVN. Or go for one of the binary repositories with ready-to-use IPS packages.

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 tool creates partial mirrors of APT repositories. Specifically targeted at Ubuntu, it is intended to replace official apt-mirror solution for simple cases.

Gentoo Enterprise Management System (GEMS) is for anyone who has a large Gentoo Linux deployment, eg Lab or LAN center. GEMS allows admins to install software and remote manage many Gentoo boxes at once from a central web console.

Install Perl Module Script : Free Script to Install Perl modules to our system. This is an automated script developed in Perl to install Perl modules and all of its dependent modules with in a single step. Geo Varghese

This utility packages CPAN modules in RPM format intelligently and with minimal effort. It produces spec-files, binaries and/or source packages and automatically downloads a module from CPAN or a given url. Offers lots of options for tweaking the spec

KaarPux is a Linux distribution, where everything is build (automatically) from source. KaarPux is aimed at developers who want to build and explore a Linux distribution, where they have complete control over the build process.

syspatch is a useful tool to apply OpenBSD patches to a collection of OpenBSD hosts where you don't want to have a compiler (compXX.tgz) and the src (and sys) hierarchy. You build "binary patches" on a buildhost and then deploy them using syspatch.

This script can be used to copy files (usually binary distributions of programs) to a remote server while preserving all the old versions of these distributions. It can also create and change symbolic links that point to certain distributions.

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

To create an "Overclockers" Linux, which operates with both speed stability and power.