Connecting Practice

Installation Tool

1. FAI - FAI is an automated installation tool to install or deploy Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions on a bunch of different hosts or a Cluster. It’s more flexible than other tools… read more

2. GNU Source Installer - GNU Source Installer is a source package manager for Unix-likes. It provides configuration, compilation, installation, upgrade, tracking and removal of packages built from source code following the GNU coding standards… read more | New

3. GNU Stow - Stow is a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local)… read more | New

4. Install Kernel (ik) - Install Kernel (ik) is a script that installs the Linux kernel and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB. It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install, so you can restore the newest configuration file when you make a new kernel… read more

5. Kernin - Kernin is a menu-driven script to help the user install a Linux kernel. It does everything from extracting the kernel from its tarball through automatically changing the LILO configuration… read more

6. Kickstart Tools - Kickstart Tools is a collection of scripts that can be used to build and maintain your own Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux. Currently, Red Hat 6.2 through RHEL 3 are supported with this toolset… read more

7. Konstruct - Konstruct is a build system which helps you to install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds and installs them… read more

8. SystemImager - SystemImager is software which automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment… read more

9. injector - The injector (0launch) is a small Python program. You ask it to run a program by giving it the program’s full name (a web address). The injector does not need to be installed or run as root. It does not write to any shared directories… read more | New

Partitioning Tool

1. GNU Parted - GNU Parted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them… read more | New

2. GNU fdisk - GNU fdisk provides libparted-based alternatives to classic partitioning tools like util-linux, fdisk and cfdisk… read more

3. PAUD - PAUD is a disk image that contains system utilities, such as fdisk, mc (midnight commander), parted, ntfsresize, and more. PAUD is ideal for rescue/administration purposes and transferring files from one filesystem to another for windows users… read more

Operating System

1. BLAG - BLAG Linux and GNU, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Fedora… read more

2. Dynebolic - A GNU/Linux distribution that places special emphasis on audio and video editing… read more

3. GNUstep Live - A GNU/Linux distribution with a user interface based on GNUstep, a free implementation of the Cocoa/OpenStep framework… read more

4. Ututo - A GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo. It was the first fully free GNU/Linux system recognized by the GNU Project… read more

5. gNewSense - A GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu, with sponsorship from the FSF… read more

Maintenance Tool

1. rh-errata - rh-errata is a tool for maintaining the integrity of a Red Hat Linux system. It builds a respository of RPM files from a designated mirror of the Red Hat updates site. It only downloads RPM files that have not already been downloaded… read more

Configuration Management

1. SCPM - SCPM is a tool to manage different configuration profiles of a Linux system. It has support for switching profiles at runtime as well as booting into a profile… read more

2. segatex - segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of a GUI. At the push of buttons, it can generate a .te file in the /root/segatex directory. You can then edit your .te file, make a module, and install… read more | New

Client/Server Application

1. gems - The gems system is a client/server application that allows to show a single console session in diferent computers or terminals in real time. It can also be used to transmit any other kind of data to more than one computer at the same time… read more | New

Interactive Text-Mode Tool

1. gnuit - gnuit is a set of interactive text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell. It contains an extensible file system browser, an ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer and some other related utilities and shell scripts… read more | New