Free finishes software for linux

niche.sh is an experimental shell written in java and c.
It aims to:
- be platform neutral
- operate multiple machines
- provide a simple efficient command line
niche.sh was written purely out of interest, please try it if you like but dont expect a finished product!
The c component of the shell has been compiled for Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OSX and FreeBSD. Results may vary depending on the exact version of your os all the files for all platforms are contained in a single zip file.

FSGuide is a Norton Commander-clone for the web, which might be useful when you do not have shell access to your server, but want to perform various file operations. As a hosting provider, you can even give this tool to your hosting users, so they can access and modify their files through FSGuide - or you can use it yourself as a system administration tool.
Note: Due to the limitations of running scripts in server environment, you can reach only those files of the filesystem that are available to the web user (www-data or wwwrun used by Apache). In general, its much more than just the files and directories under document root!
Main features:
- user authentication (you can disable user authentication to use FSGuide without logging in)
- details of user access are configurable in a simple .ini file
- deeply customizable through its configuration file and the user.ini file, loads of peruser settings
- access control finetuning through access control lists in user ini file
- you can implement your own authentication module (eg. rdbms-based)
- two-panel display (supports sorting)
- directory bookmarks
- selecting files using checkboxes You can even "cross-copy" files between the two panels: after selecting files in both panels, just click the copy or move button - this way all the selected files are copied/moved to the other panel. If you click on the delete button, all the selected files in both panels are deleted.
- advanced file selection dialog (select files by regular expression, extension, extension group, permission, filesize, time)
- copying, moving, deleting files and directories even recursively
- renaming files or directories (only the first selected file)
- creating directories
- the file operations use no external commands (it helps multiplatform use)
- a one-line navigator on both panels. Clicking on parts of the navigator results in opening that subdirectory in the panel.
- downloading files (and optional bandwidth control mechanism)
- opening and displaying files:
- built-in detection for different filetypes (DOC, PDF, text, PHP, binary, etc.) by extension or contents
- displaying files depending on the result of the detection:
- files having .php and .inc extension are displayed using source highlight
- images files recognized by PHP are displayed as images: this helps a lot while organizing image files on a remote server (eg. if you use Windows).
- If there are no other special characters than #09 (tab), #10 (CR), #12 (page break), #13 (LF), the file is displayed as a simple textfile. The file is divided into 10000 characters long pages (you can use the "more" or "less" links to switch between pages)
- If there are other special characters in the file, or characters undefined in the ISO-8859-2 codepage, then the file is treated as a binary file. In this case the control characters, and ISO-8859-2s undefined characters (0x7f- 0x9f) are replaced with a dot (to avoid browsers displaying contents erroneously and to conform the HTML standard).
- file uploader:
- configurable number of files to upload at once
- you can configure any application to run after upload
- you can check to drop the original file when the application finishes
- file editor:
- plain text editor
- binary editor
- works under both Windows and Linux
- does not depend on third-party libraries or extensions and needs no RDBMS
- produces well-formatted, valid HTML 4.01 Transitional pages
- uses PHPs error messages to report errors of file operations (since the default messages contain all the important information about the errors). This will change in the future.
Enhancements:
- array_multisort bug fixed,
- added Spanish translation, thanks to Andres Barreto!
- advanced file compare dialog
- JavaScript confirmation before deleting files
- donations accepted through Kagi

The Finishing Scripts for Cluster Installations handle specific post-installation configuration that might not be convienent nor possible using existing cluster installation methods.

The usual installation process is used to build a reasonably configured node, and the system then reboots into normal mode, achieves network visibility, and executes the finishing script.

The finishing script handles all of the finer details of installing packaged or non-packaged software, tweaking installation, setting host/net specific parameters/files, etc. It is controlled via a single, easily modified script.

BF2PHPAdmin project is a Web tool to control your Battlefield 2 servers.
BF2phpadmin is a Web tool which lets you control your Battlefield2 server using your favorite Web browser.
You can host it anywere and access your BF2 server with the password set in the configuration file.
You can do things like kick, ban, unban, and more.
Enhancements:
- Version 1.0.0 finish

manix is a window manager which aims to provide a full MacOS 8/9 interface, including an implementation of the Carbon API.
manix is using X11 as the graphical backend.
The window manager is not finished but should be useable. It will be part of the Manix Desktop which aims to implement the entire Mac OS 8/9 interface, without the hanging
and crashing of course.
Main features:
- Workspaces - currently fixed at 4, but will be settable in version 0.4
- Small and fast
Enhancements:
- Support for transient windows (modal dialogs), a new look for dialogs, and plain windows were added.

Time::Progress Perl module contains elapsed and estimated finish time reporting.

SYNOPSIS

# autoflush to get r working
$| = 1;
# get new `timer
my $p = new Time::Progress;

# restart and report progress
$p->restart;
sleep 5; # or do some work here
print $p->report( "done %p elapsed: %L (%l sec), ETA %E (%e sec)n", 50 );

# set min and max values
$p->attr( min => -2, max => -20 );
# restart `timer
$p->restart;
my $c;
for( $c = -2; $c >= -20; $c-- )
{
# print progress bar and percentage done
print $p->report( "eta: %E min, %40b %pr", $c );
sleep 1; # work...
}
# stop timer
$p->stop;

# report times
print $p->elapsed_str;

This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives.
If GIF support is enabled, GIF output is chosen by using the `dvigif binary or with the `--gif option.
dvipng is intended to produce anti-aliased screen-resolution images as fast as is possible. The target audience is people who need to generate and regenerate many images again and again. The primary target is the preview-latex (X)Emacs package, a package to preview formulas from within (X)Emacs. Yes, you get to see your formulas in the (X)Emacs buffer, see `http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/#preview-latex.
Another example is WeBWorK, an internet-based method for delivering homework problems to students over the internet, giving students instant feedback as to whether or not their answers are correct, see `http://webwork.math.rochester.edu.
Other applications may also benefit, like web applications as latex2html and WYSIWYG editors like LyX.
Main features:
- Speed. It is a very fast bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. This makes dvipng suitable for generating large amounts of images on-the-fly, as needed in preview-latex, WeBWorK and others.
- It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI.
- Interactive query of options. dvipng can read options interactively through stdin, and all options are usable. It is even possible to change the input file through this interface.
- Supports PK, VF, PostScript Type1, and TrueType fonts, color specials and simple PostScript inclusion specials.
- and more...

Tk::Wizard::Installer is a Perl module for building-blocks for a software install wizard.

use Tk::Wizard::Installer 1.932;
my $wizard = new Tk::Wizard::Installer( -title => "Installer Test", );
$wizard->addDownloadPage(
-wait => undef,
#-on_error => sub { ... },
-no_retry => 1,
-files => {
http://www.cpan.org/ => ./cpan_index1.html,
http://www.cpan.org/ => ./cpan_index2.html,
http://www.leegoddard.net => ./author.html,
},
);
$wizard->addPage( sub {
return $wizard->blank_frame(
-title=>"Finished",
-subtitle => "Please press Finish to leave the Wizard.",
-text => ""
);
});
$wizard->Show;
MainLoop;

This module makes the first moves towards a Tk::Wizard extension to automate software installation, primarily for end-users, in the manner of Install Sheild.

If you are looking for a freeware software installer that is not dependant upon Perl, try Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/. Its so good, even Microsoft have been caught using it.