Free nullsoft scriptable install system 2.29 software for linux

The Zero Install system makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software authors pages.
Caching makes this as fast as running a normal application after the first time, and allows off-line use.
Main features:
- Software is only ever cached, not installed. Anyone can run any software, and nothing is run as root.
- Running a program is done in the same way whether its cached or not.
- Running cached software is as fast as running traditionally-installed software.
- Zero Install is both simpler and more secure than traditional packaging systems.
- Software can be removed from the cache to free space without affecting the behaviour of the system (it will be re-cached on demand).
- You can still run a program you cached last week, without using the net again.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.
There are a lot of reasons why somebody would want to install an LFS system. The question most people raise is "why go through all the hassle of manually installing a Linux system from scratch when you can just download an existing distribution?". That is a valid question which I hope to answer for you.
The most important reason for LFSs existence is teaching people how a Linux system works internally. Building an LFS system teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together, and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own taste and needs.
One of the key benefits of LFS is that you are in control over your system without having to rely on somebody elses Linux implementation. You are in the drivers seat now and are able to dictate every single thing such as the directory layout and boot script setup. You will also know exactly where, why and how programs are installed.
Another benefit of LFS is that you can create a very compact Linux system. When you install a regular distribution, you end up installing a lot of programs you probably would never use. Theyre just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. Its not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was aproximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.
If we were to compare a Linux distribution with a hamburger you buy at a supermarket or fast-food restaurant, you would end up eating it without knowing precisely what it is you are eating, whereas LFS gives you the ingredients to make a hamburger. This allows you to carefully inspect it, remove unwanted ingredients, and at the same time allow you to add ingredients to enhance the flavour of your hamburger. When you are satisfied with the ingredients, you go on to the next part of putting it together. You now have the chance to make it just the way you like it: broil it, bake it, deep-fry it, barbeque it, or eat it raw.
Another analogy that we can use is that of comparing LFS with a finished house. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house, but its up to you to install plumbing, electrical outlets, kitchen, bathtub, wallpaper, etc.
Another advantage of a custom built Linux system is added security. You will compile the entire system from source, thus allowing you to audit everything, if you wish to do so, and apply all the security patches you want or need to apply. You dont have to wait for somebody else to provide a new binary package that fixes a security hole. Besides, you have no guarantee that the new package actually fixes the problem (adequately). You never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do it yourself.
Enhancements:
- The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the x86-6.2-3 version of LFS LiveCD. This version is built using LFS 6.2 and many Beyond Linux From Scratch packages from the Subversion branch. Source packages for LFS 6.2, and the LFS book itself, are included on the live CD. The CD is also suitable as a host for building x86 and x86_64 Cross LFS systems. Other features and bugfixes: the CD supports hibernation; the CD file system can be written to; the CD contains a visually pleasing and easy-to-use window manager, XFce...

deb-install is a (big) shellskript, that works on top of the package management tools provided by the debian project.
The goal is to create one command that installs any package into your system, or provides information about any package, without the user having to know all the different tools there are.
Version restrictions:
- On some systems bash reports deb-install as culprit if one of its configuration files contains an invalid command. Other then a slightly misleading error message, this doesnt have bad consequences.
Enhancements:
- Made deb-install able to recover from error when working with local files (more exactly: When working with a local file, deb-install remembers the state it is in. After it aborted, you can restart it in such a way, that it enters into that same state again [preferably after you removed the reason for the error].)
- Added option --abort-on , which lets you stop deb-install partway, when working with local files.
- Added option --dpkg-buildpackage, which lets you pass through options to that tool (used to build the .deb file if you compile from source).
- Changed location of user specific configuration files (to ~/.deb-install/deb-install.conf).
- Improved tab completion: It is faster, can expand the tilde (~), and now also works for files and directories containing spaces.
- Changed temp deletion behaviour. Now deb-install only deletes a left over temp directory if you tell it to work with a local file. That means you can install missing packages using apt-get via deb-install when a compile aborts, and resume the compile afterwards.
- Removed tracking of changes to the temp directory. The code was complicated, and now that the temp directory isnt deleted as often, I think the ability is not very useful.
- deb-install doesnt switch into searchmode anymore, if it cant find a file or package. After all, we now have tab completion, and search mode does take quite some time. Who says the user wants to do that?
- Added support for slackware packages.
- Changed interpretation of configuration files: Until now, they were read in by a simple text parser. Now they are executed by bash. This gives the user much more possibilities of how to define the variables (.e.g. conditional defines). Furthermore, all program constants are now redefineable in the conf files.
- Important: Old configuration files are NOT compatible (They contain spaces around "=", were there should be none).
- Added option --, which works just as you probably expect: No more options after this one. This allows for filenames starting with a dash.
- Expanded the documentation.

Dpsyco is a automated system to distribute system configurations to several computers. It is written mainly for the Debian distribution but should be portable (without too much difficulties) to other distributions or Unixes as well.
It consists of a number of shell scripts to perform the desired actions. With it you can handle users, add ssh-public-keys, patch the system, update things using cfengine, install files (overriding other package files), and more.
Main features:
- Handle users.
- Handle groups.
- Handle ssh access.

*nix-style project lets you configure various parts of your system.
The program is licensed as CreativeCommons 2.0 NonCommercial ShareAlike.
This is a set of scripts with a zenity based, graphical user interface.
Run "nix-style" to start the script chooser.
Main features:
- configuring behavior of bash and change the bash-prompt
- change the behavior of readline
- change the behavior of vim
- change the behavior of nano
- change/install splashy bootsplash
- change/install usplash bootsplash
- change xorg settings (only the driver at the moment)
- choose default compiler and compiler flags
- tweak hidden gnome preferences
Debian Only:
- you can add some extra repos for multimedia, e17 and desktop-artwork. the keys are grabbed and installed automatically
**Note: only those features will be displayed in the script chooser which are usable (so if you havent vim installed it wont appear in the list)**
KNOWN BUGS:
- if the uptime feature is enabled in $PS1 (Bash-Prompt) and uptime is less than 1 hour it won*t be displayed correctly. if youre a bash-hacker i would be glad if you could take a look at the support/showuptime file in the tarball.
2 Different Flavors to Install:
- install it system-wide for every user (a Menu Entry will appear: System- Settings- *nix-style)
su -c "make install"
- or install it as a nautilus script (you need to logout to make it work)
make install-nautilus (as normal user)
to remove it either type su -c "make uninstall" or su -c "make uninstall-nautilus"
to create a debian package, install fakeroot and run- as normal user- "make deb"