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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Mini Linux Distribution for playing OGG, MP3 and WAV audio files. Meant to be embedded in a CD together with all the audio files. Perfect to build a MP3 Box on a low end PC.

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.

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.

Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on Live! CD

LiveCD provides that platform for creating your own LiveCD based on Mandrake Linux. This project is an offshoot of the MiniCD project to enable the generic creation of a LiveCD's for a multitude of applications.

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

Our goal is to build development utils for TOPPERS. TOPPERS is a uITRON4.0 specification real time kernel distributed as free.

Use this tool to protect the source of your Perl-Project and make the scripts unreadable without compiling! Currently the Script replaces the names of variables (Scalars / Hashes) with random-character constructions. PerlSourceProtector supports to work

Non-root users construct, develop, test and run all types of distributions with Root Methods (Yard, etc.) and user-mode-linux, then finish with a Boot Method (2-disk compression, etc). Make_debian yard template creator provided for Debian users.

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.

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.

AVD is a continuation of the swim project. The goal is to create a suitable SQL server from swim's not-installed DB, and to maintain the swim client. AVD will be used as a gBootRoot method.

Advisory Check is a tool for monitoring the security of installed software. It gathers security advisories using RSS/RDF/XML feeds, compares them against a list of known software, and alerts you if you're vulnerable. Let advchk read advisories for you!

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.

ApacheBuilder builds Apache (with optional modules of Mod_SSL and Mod_Perl) from sources, prompting for config params of location, etc. When done, it starts Apache and verifies it all works ok.

Application Version Manager is designed to enable multiple versions of the same application (i.e. Mozilla) to be accessible to a user or developer. The user/developer would simply choose the version required and use avm to load the version required

The Appropriate Software Foundation exists to contribute to the usage and development of software appropriate to the information flows within global civil society.