Free hp linux imaging and printing software for linux

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Driver Project consists of two projects:

1) HPIJS, a printer driver for HP devices

2) HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP), a complete printing and imaging solution for Linux (note: HPLIP includes HPIJS).

Linux distribution race is a cool car race for 4 players, cars are named by Linux distributions (Mandrake, SUSE, RedHat, Debian).

You can create maps in GIMP. Controls: WSAD, TGFH, IKJL, arrows.

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter.

This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.

The current free version is PIL 1.1.5, which has been tested with Python 1.5.2 and newer, including 2.3 and 2.5.

Linux Cluster Manager is a graphical tool for managing multiple Linux systems from a central location. Meant primarily for Beowulf style clusters, it has many useful features for general system administration and even some non Linux specific possibilities like block level imaging.
Imaging with LCM is quick and easy as each node has its IP and hostname changed ready for boot as an independant node preloaded with all of your applications. Using a file based image, items can be changed such as the target device, the file system capacity, or even the file system type. Imagine requiring a new partition on boot disks already filled across hundreds of machines. It is a simple property change, re-image the node(s), and you are ready to go.
Image creation can be done from a running system or LCM can remote power on a node through WOL, PXE boot it, collect an image, and power off the node when complete.
All operations are simple point and click, no command line options to remember (these are optional), or complicated setup.
Main features:
- Easy to use GUI for all operations
- Real time status information for all nodes
- Connect to individual nodes via a user specified protocol (ssh, rsh, rlogin ,etc)
- Report on running processes across the cluster
Imaging Features
- Imaged nodes have IP and hostname information changed automatically, just image and boot
- Block level system imaging (can be used for any x86 based operating system)
- File level system imaging
- Wake on LAN for imaging
- Preconfigured for PXE boot of clients
- Images can be customized - target device changed, file system size, file system type
Monitor Features
- Real time status monitoring for all nodes, CPU and Network
- Scrolling, scalable graphs
- View all nodes or a subset you are interested in
Scripting Features
- Run scripts across the cluster or on select nodes without a client agent
- Connects via a user selected protocol with secure authentication
- Command line or GUI interface
- Can be incorporated into external scripts

Partition Image application is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file.
The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example); partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.
Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file.
This is unlike the dd command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.
This is very useful to save partitions to an image in some cases:
- First you can restore your linux partition if there is a problem (virus, file system errors, manipulation error) . When you have a problem, you just have to restore the partition, and after 10 minutes, you have the original partition. You can write the image to a CD-R if you dont want the image to use hard-disk space.
- This utility can be used to install many identical PCs. For example, if you buy 50 PCs, with the same hardware, and you want to install the same linux systems on all 50 PCs, you will save a lot of time. Indeed, you just have to install on the first PC and create an image from it. For the 49 others, you can use the image file and Partition Images restore function.

Phrealon is a bootable linux CD based on Slackware Linux 8.0 (now 9.0)designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple workstations.

It utilizes the udpcast set of Linux tools to accomplish this.

Linux DC++ is a project to port the DC++ direct connect client to Linux or any POSIX-compliant Unix.

CDlinux is a CD based mini Linux distribution, which runs from a CDROM. It aims to be a handy administration/rescue tool for system administrators as well as general users.
CDlinux is highly user configurable, supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA, SCSI, USB, etc.) and many networking protocols (FTP, SSH, NFS, SMB, DHCP, etc.).
CDlinux also has good support for CJK, especially Simplified Chinese.
These are some useful gadgets from CDlinux. Note, you do not need to download them, if you have downloaded CDlinux. They are already included. They are listed here just in case you may want to use them in a normal Linux installation, and dont want to download the whole CDlinux bundle. And they are also as examples on how works are done under Linux, in a better and more decent way comparing with other platforms.
file-opt (~1k) This shell script finds identical files in the CURRENT directory, and hard link them to save space. Its useful when building so called "N in 1" CD images like "Win2k 3in1" in Linux .
mkisofs-CJK (~380k) This is a patched version of mkisofs-2.0.3, it supports CJK joliet filenames. The original GB (Simplified Chinese) Code Page was derived from the official Linux kernel, and has some errors. I fixed this bug according to the correct cp936 file (~160k). This version can handle GB joliet filenames correctly now.
It also supports the new "joliet-long" parameter, and supports joliet filenames as long as 103 unicode characters (207 bytes). So you can even use it to build "WinPE" CD images in Linux.
The source of the CJK patch is available here (~390k). Note that, this patch is only a quick and dirty hack, I only tested it in Slackware-8.1.
ren2upper (~2k) When being invoked as "ren2upper", this script will change file/folder names in the CURRENT directory to upper case. And, if being invoked as "ren2lower", it will change them to lower case. Its useful when exchanging data between Unix and Windows hosts.
These gadgets are either shell scripts or compiled with gcc-2.95.3 and linked against glibc-2.2.5, so they should run happily on most recent Linux distributions.
Whats New in 0.5.9 Alpha Development Release:
- This release added support for auto-detecting the boot device, support for CDL_DEV=LABEL=xxx, CDL_DEV=UUID=xxx, and CDL_WAIT=n, and support for auto-detecting local partitions.
- The number of supported RAM disks and loop devices was increased to 255.
- Support for locales was improved.
- A ctrl-alt-del problem was fixed and some pkg upgrades were made.