Free software distribution software for linux

Core is a minimal distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system designed to be the basis for a complete system constructed by the end user. A fresh installation of Core will boot into a console and provide the user with the tools needed to download, compile and install other applications. Core contains nothing beyond what is required to perform these tasks.
Core is primarily designed for experienced Linux users, though it has found an audience with those looking to learn about the internals and operation of a Linux system. Core requires the user to manually configure, compile and install applications and expects the user to consult man pages and other documentation.
Installation:
These instructions are incomplete, but should be sufficient:
- Download, burn and boot the ISO.
- Partition, format and mount the hard drive.
- Run install_core [mount point of hard drive].
- Optional packages in /pkgs/optional can be installed with corepkg(8).
- Copy the kernel from /pkgs/kernel to /usr/src of the hard drive.
- Run chroot [mount point] bash -l to chroot into the new system.
- Compile and install the Linux kernel [be sure to run LILO].
- Review and modify the files under /etc.
- Reboot and start constructing the new system.
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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.

JackLab Audio Distribution is a remastered openSUSE for musicians, producers and media creators.

The JackLab Team is proud to present the first public alpha-release of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD). The 1.2GB DVD iso can be downloaded from jacklab.org.

We have found that musicians have particular requirements for their Linux environment. A Linux-based distribution that is designed for music needs to be flexible, powerful, yet easy and quick to use. All of these things are essential in a busy, creative environment. Thinking about these requirements, we decided to base JAD on openSUSE due to its stability and long development history. All major administrative tasks can be done graphically and easily without having to learn any complicated terminal commands.

JAD will be fully compatible with the recently released openSUSE 10.2. It will contain a full production environment for media production, primarily music. For this, the JackLab team added a Realtime Kernel version 2.6.19 to have fast audio processing with a latency up to 1.5ms. The default audio system will be based on the the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) which is designed for the needs of musicians and producers and gives a professional audio/midi controlling interface.

The installer is based on the acclaimed YaST2, which also serves as an easy-to-use administrative tool. To keep as many essential computer resources for music as possible, we have decided to use Enlightenment D17 desktop shell as the default window manager. KDE desktop environment is also included, so the user-friendly file manager - Konqueror, is available along with Kmail, Konversation, k3b and other KDE tools. For music creation and editing, we have included around 70 audio applications with sequencers, synthesizers and tools all installed and ready to go. User-friendly support for setting up and running VST instruments and effects is given. Additionally, there are applications for video production and a graphic suite that are included on the DVD. For browsing the internet, we have included Firefox 2.0 chosen for its stability, security and extendability.

JAD is a community based effort and is the culmination of the work of many contributors. Recently, JackLab and PackMan (packman.links2linux.de) have joined forces to offer JAD access to the PackMan repositories so that up-to-date audio software, non-audio software and multimedia codecs are available to JAD users. The JAD development team would like you to participate in the development process too. There are different ways you can help:

-As a tester, you can download the most recent version and use the bugtracker to report any problems.
-You can participate in the graphics contest: The best graphics submitted will be used as default for the bootscreen, wallpaper, skins and icons.
-You can submit feature requests and take part in discussions on the mailing list.
-For taking part in providing user support, there is a web based forum and an IRC channel - it is also an essential part of the development process to see feedback.

Node Director project is a system management application for centralized user and host management in small to medium sized Unix / Linux / (Windows) system environments.
Main features:
- user management; templates and user classes make creation of users easy
- delegation of routine administration tasks
- data storage via LDAP - clients can directly bind to the LDAP database server
- flexible directory and name services - manages NIS, DNS, static DHCP entries, Samba users, LDAP ? LDAP transformations, file based databases like /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts, ...
- single account / password across multiple systems and applications
- software distribution
- service configuration (e.g. sendmail, bind, ntp, ...) via template mechanism
- customizable actions on events like e.g. account creation, password change, host configuration change, ... where actions include home directory creation, service restart, execution of arbitrary commands on target system and many many more
The Director is currently mainly deployed on Linux systems and therefore supports Linux best. Most Unix systems are not directly supported but the Director will work. There is some limitted functionality for Windows machines, too.
The Node Director requires an LDAP accessible database engine, such as the free OpenLDAP or the SUN / Netscape Directory Server. Virtually, any directory server that implements LDAP v2 or v3 and allows custom schema extensions should do, the development team uses OpenLDAP, and the Director has been successfully tested with the Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2.
The Director is in no means meant as a mere frontend for editing arbitrary data in LDAP accessible directory trees. It rather is a system management software storing its information via LDAP in RFC-compliant objects. The difference is that when you work with the Director you will never care about LDAP specific things like attributes, DNs, object classes, whatever (unless you want, of course). You will work with lists (e.g. of users) and forms (e.g. a single user account).
Anyway, the data is stored in an LDAP tree. While the Director comes with a number of means of updating name services like DNS, the system password/account database, Samba, etc. clients can directly bind via LDAP to the data store and access account / host records (e.g. via nss_ldap).

Software::Packager::Perl is used to package perl modules ready for installation and or distribution.

SYNOPSIS

use Software::Packager;
my $packager = new Software::Packager(perl);

It creates packages in the same format used to install all Perl modules.

FUNCTIONS

new()

This method creates and returns a new class object.

package()

This method overrides the base API and implements the required functionality to create Perl software packages.

Scratchbox is a cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier.

The project also provides a full set of tools to integrate and cross-compile an entire Linux distribution.

Gendist is a live CD generator system. Gendist has nice features like multi-distribution CDs, support for grub, isolinux, and gfxboot boot managers, and a modules system for configuring your distribution in live mode.

This system is independent from the kernel version (but need unionfs and squashfs support). It only works on Debian Sid or Ubuntu Dapper.

UbuntuTrinux seeks to integrate elements (and code, where appropriate) of Trinux with the Debian/Ubuntu mkinitramfs infrastructure to allow easy development and packaging Ubuntu binary (and ultimately package and repository) compatible ramdisk distributions using recent 2.6.x kernels. As before, the most common use is network security monitoring and analysis.

Trinux: A Linux Security Toolkit was a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that was under active development from 1998-2003.