Open Source Desktop Operating Systems System Shells

System Shells for Desktop Operating Systems

Browse free open source System Shells and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source System Shells by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 955 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,098 This Week
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    CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp
    CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.
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    Downloads: 186 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 36 This Week
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    TinTin++ Mud Client

    TinTin++ Mud Client

    A MUD client for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

    TinTin++ is a console mud client for any type of text mud or bbs. The mud client's main assets are an easy to learn scripting language, triggers, automapping, and a split screen interface to separate mud output from client input. Installation instructions for Android, iOS, and several other operating systems are available on the website. https://tintin.mudhalla.net
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    The Doszip Commander

    The Doszip Commander

    TUI file manager (NC clone) with built-in Zip for DOS and Windows

    The Doszip Commander is an LFN-aware TUI file manager (NC clone) with built-in Zip and UnZip for DOS and Windows.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Seal is a free, open source 32-bit GUI written primarily for DOS compatible systems.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. It's main purpose is the auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start rootsh through the sudo mechanism.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    GeoShell is a Windows Shell Replacement. It replaces the standard 'Start Menu', 'Desktop', 'Task Bar' and 'system tray' of windows with a smaller, faster, and more configureable program, with an extensible bar-oriented minimal interface.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    TinyTcl is a tiny version of Tcl, for small footprint machines and embeddable/rommable applications. It is derived from Tcl 6.7 and compiles to less than 60K, 10X smaller than Tcl 7 and Tcl 8.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    PHPterm is a terminal/shell emulator for PHP which let's you execute shell commands just like in a shell, but all within your browser window over the HTTP protocol. It aims to provide the look and feel of konsole, the KDE terminal.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Gauvain OS is an graphical interface for MS-DOS.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ICMP Shell (ISH) is a telnet-like protocol. It allows users to connect to a remote host and to open a shell using only ICMP to send and receive data. ICMP Shell was written in C for the UNIX environment.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    NPK MUD-like environment: a shell environment that aims to transform a computer shell in a MUD-like text-based virtual reality.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    TclFltk

    Dynamic Extension for TCL/TK

    Implements a Tcl binding for the Fast Light Tool Kit portable GUI development environment.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    this is a very primitive dos multitasking gui i think it will help alot of people with window management it also comes with some example progams
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Shell Script based installation utilities to facilitate the building, packaging and installation of custom Database applications, specifically database objects such as tables, stored procedures, data etc.
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    Ampare Windows 10 Full Shutdown

    Ampare Windows 10 Full Shutdown

    Full Shutdown For Your Windows 8 and Windows 10 PC

    Change From Visual Basic to Bat file to fix False Positive Detection Error This Software will use the old shutdown method of Windows that allow you to completely shutdown your pc . No hibernation or Fast Startup. Allow you to recovery file , Installing Dual Boot Linux and even more with just a click of this simple tools Donate us : http://www.juthawong.com/donate
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    BatchLogin is a shell connection virtualization program. It allows a user on a complex network to connect and execute scripts and commands upon groups of machines without having to deal with the connection specifics every time.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    BeRDP is a project dedicated to bringing the RDP protocol to the BeOS platform utilizing the rdesktop project.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    DBA Shell Functions and Scripts to make it easy for common Database command-line chores such as assigning Environment variables, running scripts into logs, provide stored passwords, error checking, checking for db status, database restarts, compile, etc.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    DOG is an alternative to COMMAND.COM, better and smaller.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    DateFuns
    A set of functions for KSH and BASH in a sourceable file. Typical functions include calculating differences between dates, going forward or back any number of days. Works for dates AD only. Some issues will arise when today > 2099...
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    F2Ashell
    This Shell allows you to have an easy text interface to probe your code. Your code must be related to a DLL library to interact with the shell. A template to implement this is provided. Project WEB: http://sites.google.com/site/f2ashell/
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The objective of this to write the equivalent of scandisk for a DOS (FAT12) filesystem on a floppy disk. It can check that a filesystem is internally consistent, and correct any errors found.http://groups.google.com/group/myopensoft
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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