Open Source Unix Shell Terminals for BSD

empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc)

SSVNC adds encryption security to VNC. It provides a GUI for Windows, MacOSX, and Unix that automatically starts up an SSL or SSH tunnel for connections to any VNC server. It also supports VeNCrypt encryption. The Unix viewer has many new features.

testssl.sh is a free command-line tool that checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws and more. testssl.sh is free and open-source software. You can use it under the terms of GPLv2, please review the License before using it. Works for Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD and WSL/MSYS2/Cygwin out of the box, no need to install or configure something, no gems, CPAN, pip or the like. OpenBSD only needs bash to be postinstalled. You can test any SSL/TLS enabled and STARTTLS service, not only webservers at port 443. Several command line options help you to run your test and configure your output. If a particular check cannot be performed because of a missing capability on your client side, you'll get a warning. You can look at the code, see what's going on and you can change it.

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.

DIET-PC (DIskless Embedded Technology Personal Computer) is a software kitset enabling IT professionals to build an open source GUI appliance based on commodity x86 (PC), PowerPC (Mac) or ARM (handheld) hardware, using an embedded Linux methodology.

Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.

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

Mussh is a shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once.

The Linux Console Tools is a set of tools allowing a Linux user to set up his/her console's behaviour. This does not include X11 features, which use a different mechanism.

Viewglob is a tool to increase the usability of the Unix shell in graphical environments. It watches your shell activity in an xterm and tracks file selections and potential name completions in a GTK+ display showing the layouts of relevant directories.

JMrTools, is inspired by the MrTools Perl Project (Written by Robert Marino). This JAVA project implements ssh telnet, scp, rsync, sftp, ftp, and stdio. Providing execution/transfer of commands, script, or files on Multiple hosts concurrently.

Live Security/Forensics Linux Distribution, built from scratch and packed full of tools useful for vulnerability analysis, penetration tests, and forensic analysis.

A generic MUD Engine in language C (Universe and rules independent), role-play oriented, which uses XML for data. Some creation tools (for map, character, item) are provided for this MUD, but can be used with other one.

Plume is a complete set of packages to create and administrate a network of diskless computers used as X terminals. Workstations root file system is extensively based on Debian with as few new packages as possible.

A small BOINC control script for Linux and the BSDs. Useful if there's no GUI on the crunching system yet you still want to easily monitor and control BOINC. Requires BOINC version 7.22 or higher.

Badger is a multi-purpose program designed to make System Administrator tasks easier for all computer users. It is currently a Beta ready for testing. It currently runs on Mac and Linux. It must be run as root.

Colorcat adds ANSI color to terminal text according to Perl 5 regular expressions. Makes verbose log files or command-line programs easier to read. Includes an example script to add color to cvs's output (colorcvs).

The SetConsole is a script for text mode console initialization on Linux platform. It sets up font, application character map, cursor, keyboard LED's, and many other settings for each console.

A collection of bash shell scripts to make life a little easier.

A BASH, SH and KSH (and maybe others) initialisation framework that enables your shell environment to handle logging on to different sites & operating systems and configure your environment and the different software installed at different sites etc.

Publishing updates of resources on a Moodle server requires to click click and click again. If you propose several resources and want to update them times to times, this becomes boring. The proposed tools may ease this. Then, you can for instance automate your update with a script. Moreover you can easily adapt those tools to your needs. (These are shell scripts.)

Mini OpenBSD Router/Firewall/Gateway with openssh, altqd, pfctl (firewall+nat), routed, snmpd, oidentd, simple shell menu config,multi user & wireless support. Fit on 8MB flashdisk & 24 MB ram.

Software for a serial LCD display (4x<20>/<16>) and four keys. The software displays default shell-scripts or menues with (shell) commands.

Piggyback Data Transfer Protocol (pdtp) is a protocol for transferring files over a terminal session. Initially the session works like a normal terminal. File transferring "mode" is activated by running a client on the remote server.

A PHP Server application allowing a single machine with a good sound card to play MP3 files, at the request of client machines.