Open Source Unix Shell Software Distribution Software for Linux

Based on Arch. Built for Power Users and Sysadmins. Built for those who demand control over their system. Optimized for AMD™, it features a global dark theme and a suite of powerful tools for advanced users. Developed by two lead devs and their squad, it’s raw, unpolished, and built for those who love to tinker, learn, and push boundaries. Why Entropy? Power & Flexibility: Designed for power users, sysadmins, and DevOps pros. Advanced Toolset: Custom utilities to boost productivity, AMD™ Optimized: Engineered for peak performance on AMD hardware. Part of a Vision: A key piece of an evolving ecosystem, connecting projects seamlessly. Entropy is a constantly evolving system—designed to be explored, tweaked, and refined. Some setup may be required, but that’s part of the fun. What to Expect? A robust, adaptable distro with powerful tools and limitless customization. Occasional bugs, experimental features, and hidden easter eggs because pushing limits isn’t always smooth!

The project provides a script which permits to generate automatically a small rescue system for Linux (boot floppy, CDROM, ZIP or tftpboot configuration). All usal Linux console commands are available. Only hard disk and network drivers are supported.

MonkeyCity Rescue is dedicated to creating a Linux Rescue CD that, among other things, is geared towards data recovery from Microsoft Windows machines.

The XPS is a scalable platform for meta-programming and domain engineering. It provides a virtual machine, compiler, and runtime library that make it possible to efficiently develop, debug, and run programs based on XPL (eXtensible Programming Language)

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.

Alindis - A GNU/Linux Distribution was to be a comprehensive guide leading the reader from zero to his/her own GNU/Linux distribution. This is now a dead project. -- Felix

A system for tracking the steps to compile and install software. Inspired by the "Linux From Scratch" book. Addresses issues: "What steps did I use to compile 'foo'?, what files did it install? I need to recompile but don't like typing all commands over.

BTS is a Build Template System designed for building packages for th common packing systems in use by current distributions based on a single XML package description. We are finally restarting development after a long break due to NeOS work.

It is a Uruguayan Linux distribution. Can be used from floppy disks, cdroom or you can install it in your hard disk. It has been designed to be fast and effective without leaving of side the graphical aspect for the user.

DISTributed Adaptable Executable (DISTae) is a software layer that allows the portability of programs among different heterogeneous computing units and run the different parts of the code simultaneously in a distributed and heterogeneous environment.

FreeBSD Port Tools consist of the several small scripts run from port(1) front-end: - port commit: commit a port into the FreeBSD Ports CVS Repository - port create: create a new port from a template - port diff: generate a diff against a previous version of the port - port fetch: fetch distfile(s) of a new version of the port - port getpr: get patch/shar from a PR - port help: display usage summary for port(1) commands - port install: install a port - port submit: submit a PR with new port, or port change/update - port test: automate testing a new port or a port update - port upgrade: upgrade a port

The GNU/Linux System Architect Toolkit is designed to help speed the process of building of a system from source code. Architect takes the time consuming tasks of configuring, building, stripping and packaging and automates them with shell scripts.

Xdialog script creates a boot-able live DVD that is a copy of a KNOPPIX version plus user content added to the root of the new DVD. Easy one step publishing allows a new boot.img, background, and startup up index.html on a custom made DVD.

An automated system adminstration framework for any *nix operating system. Automated package and configuration management are supported.

Linoratix is a Linux distribution focused on Workstations and Servers

The "Linux 4D Components" Project is aimed to develop some software components to make a linux distribution accessibile.

Linux ICE (In Car Entertainment) is a set of scripts used to transform a ubuntu system into a Car PC centric Linux distribution. The distribution created by the scripts includes integrated media software and the xorg touchscreen drivers.

We are developing a linux distribution for DiskOnChip-based internet set-top-boxes

Multiple Remote SHell Management On Demand aids in the management of multiple systems via SSH and shared keys. In its simplest form one can run one script on multiple systems returning and logging stdout and stderr for each system on demand.

NG-LFS is a free open source script framework designed for creating your own Operating system based on (with a few modifications) Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch. Infos, forums, downloads and more are on the Website.

NSDi (Network Services Discoverer) is a metarepository for big/small environments. This tool uses differents plugins to discover the services and software installed on servers. You can create many repositories accesibles via API for many external tools.

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

Pools of Virtual Boxes (POVB) aims to make it easy to deploy Linux Condor pools on Windows based machines using Virtual Box virtual machines.

Portpkg -- A Ports System for Slackware Linux. Portpkg is a Project, that consists of three parts: an open SlackBuild-collection ("ports"), an administration tool ("portpkg"), and a platform for exchanging and suggesting new ports.

ProgPorts is an administrative and easy user interface to hundreds of proteomics, molecular dynamics, and protein crystallography programs. It is a hybrid of the prog/setup system, developed at Johns Hopkins University, and GNU-Darwin ports system.