Open Source Linux Systems Administration Software

Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 44 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.

Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OS.

Linux Mobile System is a full Linux system within a USB Flash Memory Drive. This system will be able to boot from any i386 based PC, so we can to run a lot of utilities: network diagnostic, disk diagnostic, administration terminal, etcetera.

Operating system project from scratch to design and implement all components from boot strapping,hardware interrupts , memory manger ,file system , etc .

gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there

qingy is a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Window System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...).

bootE Linux is yet another minimalist Linux distribution and is contained entirely on a single floppy disk. It supports only single user mode, and is intended as a repair/rescue/emergency distribution.

A set of bash scripts implementing hardware and system profiles for linux. Configuration files may be switched and scripts run dependent on the state of things such as hardware configuration, power management, or network connections.

Application Keepalive Daemon will run an application until it stops and then run it again. Setup continously run applications not designed as daemons.

Daemon Manager is a program designed to manage UNIX services. If a running service should die, it is restarted automatically. Daemon Manager provides an easy method of placing resource limits on certain services, along with some other useful features.

Emergency Linux CD

Eselstall Secure Environment to Launch Software you don't Trust At aLL: Combined chroot/setuid tool to easily launch background processes (servers) in a confined environment. Eliminates the need for su in the changeroot directory.

The NotNet (Notebook Network) Profiler lets you specify a linux kernel boot parameter and loads the chosen network scheme (+ related services). When logging in, it changes the browser's proxy configuration according to the current network scheme.

Provide working sample implementations of PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) client and server software. Project has moved to: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/pxe-toolkit/

Do you hate having a few giant directories that hold all of your packages? Do you hate installing something only to find that it doesn\'t work properly, and it doesn\'t have a make uninstall? If so, this script is for you.

Salvare is a Linux distribution specifically aimed at small credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB of data. It is aimed at providing a useful workstation, as well as rescue environment in a small package.

SWAL is a program that can launch as a service (or standalone) and monitor other services and control other programs. Written in C++ and might have some .NET components (planning on a linux port)

LAN management system - MySQL based system managing machines with DHCP, DNS through a PHP Web interface. Also contains a samba search engine.

vold is a Volume Daemon for Linux that can automatically mount CD-Roms, Harddrives, USB Flash Sticks, iPods etc. It is also possible to identify Partitions by UUID or volumename and mount them in a pre-defined Folder. Aims to replace mounting by hand!

Webbsyte login is a program to interface with UNIX/Linux users to be able to login to their computer. There is currently a login program that is installed with UNIX, but we are going to build one with even bigger possibilities. Webbsyte Login will inte

A minimal linux rescue distribution with the goals of being small, compatible and very usable. Features as a cozy shell and a multitude of partition rescue/editing tools all based on up-to-date releases like 2.4.x kernel with USB support etc.

autoswap is a tool (written in Perl) that allows for swap space to be created automatically based upon the amount of RAM in the machine or configuration. Useful for cluster configuration.

Depinit is an alternative init program that can handle parallel execution, dependencies, true roll-back, pipelines, improved signaling and unmounting filesystems on shutdown. It incorporates ideas from sysvinit, simpleinit, daemontools and make. At present, it is a bit experimental, and requires good knowledge of the initialisation process to set up.

genhostname is a linux perl script running at runlevel2 boot and changes the computers hostname to PC-XXXXXXXXXX deppending on the eth0 mac address or the wireless network card macaddress there is 2 scrips in the download. install the one you need.