Open Source Perl Boot Software

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 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.

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.

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

DruidBSD is a FreeBSD micro-distribution that supports CD/DVD, USB, and HD booting into a Live BSD Distribution.

Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.

System Configurator is a utility for automatically configuring networking and bootstrapping in a Linux Distribution and Architecture agnostic way.

Streambox is a web interface for live mp3 streaming. It can be installed on a linux machine with one or more soundcards. Streambox is meant to be used as the only interface to the machine: it does not need a keyboard or monitor. Also StreamBOX is a CD

Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on Live! CD

ThinTUX is a small Linux distribution for thin clients. It has support for all major remote access protocols. The distribution can be booted from the network. The configuration is stored on a DHCP server to simplify terminal management.

Netbootmgr provides a GUI and CLI for managing the next boot action for network booted nodes of a cluster. The GUI includes node status information and provides an interface to cluster node power control.

InstallPen it's a very small script to create OpenBSD's install pendrives ;)

Provide an interface to the /dev/nvram, by property name and value. The key component of this project is a set of nvram description files. Provide a clearinghouse for nvram definitions.

A project dedicated to provide an uniform system administration enviroment for Operating Systems based on the Linux Kernel.

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

Nacha is a web-based linux distribution. It boot up a mini core and a web interface to enable later installation, software update, and web user interface. Best solution for enterprise or server linux installation.

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.

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

Yard is a suite of Perl scripts for creating custom boot/rescue/Linux-on-a-floppy disks. You specify a basic set of files and utilities for inclusion and Yard handles the details, including checking for errors, omissions and inconsistencies.

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.

Bootdisk lets you create boot and root disks for booting linux. These disks should permit rescue when normal boot is no more available. Bootdisk makes possible quick tests adjusting your set of utilities.

grub2rand is a perl script designed to change the grub2 picture randomly. Choose a folder with your pictures in it and every time you log into your computer, grub2rand will choose a new picture for the next startup.

Creates comfortable menus for your multiboot CD or DVD.

A set of tools to generate and build a customized initramfs, for simple mounting tasks, such as setting up a unionfs system. Written for a small footprint and fast execution. Compatible with both glibc and uClibc.

Report historical and statistical running time of system and other components, keeping it between reboots. Like uptime command but with more interesting output. NOTE: Tuptime was completely rewriten in python and now its available in https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime

This tool is a user-mode-linux start-stop perl scripts, which with you can start (or stop) a certain number of uml kernel, giving certain parameters on cmdline (ips, hostname, ...) and let's It automagically does all.