Free fai software for linux

FAI-CD represents fully automatic installation from CD or DVD.
FAI-CD puts all data needed for a fully automatic installation on a CD. So not network is needed and you can install the whole system from CD. The script creates an ISO image that includes the nfsroot, the configuration space and a partitial Debian mirror.
- Choose FAISERVER for installing the host as a FAI install server
- The XFREE configuration uses 24 bit color depth by default, so on older graphics cards, if will not succesfully start gdm.
- The system will be installed to the first disk (either IDE or SCSI). All data on the disk will be deleted.
- All log files from the installation can be found in /var/log/fai/localhost/last/
- After the installation the account demo with the password fai is available.
- The root password is also fai.

linda is a simple library implementation of the Linda parallel programming system.

To write a parallel program with linda, you have to know only 6 functions: spawn, out, in, inp, rd, and rdp. linda was originally written by Wong Weng Fai. It has been improved by making it a real library by using GNU autotools, by adding timeout functions, and by using glib/gthread.

debsync is a Python command line tool which helps to synchronise the installed packages lists on several existing Debian GNU/Linux machines.

debsync gets a list of installed packages from a master host, and installs or removes packages on several hosts to match the masters package list.

debsync can do its work either over ssh (default) or rsh.

debsync is different from fai (Full Automated Installation) because AFAIK fai works with machines you plan to install automatically and identically, while debsyncs goal is to update a bunch of existing and different machines to the level at which they both have the same packages installed as those installed on a master host.