Open Source Installers

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Bulk Crap Uninstaller (in short BCUninstaller or BCU) is a free (as in speech and beer) bulk program uninstaller with advanced automation. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal to no user input, while requiring next to no technical knowledge. It can detect most applications and games (even portable or not registered), clean up leftovers, force uninstall, automatically uninstall according to premade lists, and much more. Bulk Crap Uninstaller is licensed under Apache 2.0 open source license, and can be used in both private and commercial settings for free and with no obligations, as long as no conditions of the license are broken.

Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.

Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driverpacks or included folders with drivers. It can be used to install drivers on newly assembled PCs at places where Internet isn't available. Users can also use the software to keep their drivers up to date.

# archfi Just a simple bash script wizard to install Arch Linux after you have booted on the official Arch Linux install media. With this script, you can install Arch Linux with 2 lines of code. This wizard is maked to install minimum packages (base, grub and optionally efibootmgr). At the end of this wizard, you can install or launch archdi (Arch Linux Destop Install) to install and configure desktop packages. archdi project : https://github.com/MatMoul/archdi You can watch my videos to show how to use it : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytHgIKLV1caHlCrcTSkm5OF2WSVI1_Sq How to use : Boot with the Arch Linux image : https://www.archlinux.org/download/ Download the script : wget archfi.sf.net/archfi or if sourceforge is down : wget matmoul.github.io/archfi And launch the script : sh archfi

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. The website has moved to http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer, where you can find the latest release.

ISTool is a visual script editor/generator for Jordan Russell's Inno Setup compiler.

Tool for creating live usb-drives and downloading distros. This is an upgraded version of Unetbootin focusing on Bittix linux 9 and above and Linux Mint and Linux Mint debian. Has Distrowatch.com link etc.

Great and powerful application to generate stable and multi-platform java installers. Watch a demo of DCP Setup Maker's installer being made in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF5Kyla7Hg Its intuitive UI and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex installers with large amounts of files. The whole process is done step by step through a wizard-like interface, filling in fields and setting up files to finally build your package. *Required: Java 1.6+ Powered by Java, IzPack, Apache Pivot, Apache Ant, Nuget, launch4j and Stax. Source code migrated to https://github.com/DevComPack/setupmaker

ThinWin converts your Windows machine to a Thin Client in seconds! With ThinWin you can easily lock down a pc acting as a Thin Client. ThinWin is based on ThinXP (Complete rewrite)

Quick Uninstaller is a replacement application for Microsoft Windows « Add/Remove programs » utility. With Quick Uninstaller, managing software installed on your computer become faster and easier. NOTE: I will no longer maintain this project.

Artica For Samba Appliance is an Open source ISO based on Debian 6 that create a full NAS/File server using LDAP system with all necessaries features. It install Artica Web administration Console, a sexy Ajax interface to help you create shares and other filesystem tunes & tweaks

A slide show for JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, & WMF files; maximizes images without distortion. Folders can be selected at run time, or in advance with arguments or a .picshow file. File name, date of picture, and comment can optionally be shown with image.

m23 is a free software distribution system (license: GPL), that installs (via network, starting with partitioning and formatting) and administrates (updates, adds / removes software, adds / removes scripts) clients with Debian, (X/K)Ubuntu and LinuxMint. It is used for deployment of Linux clients in schools, institutions and enterprises. The m23 server is controlled via a web interface. A new m23 client can be installed easily in only three steps. Group functions and mass installation tools make managing a vast number of clients comfortable. The integration of existing clients (with .deb-based distributions) into the system is possible, too. Client backup and server backup are included to avoid data loss. With the integrated virtualisation software, m23 can create and manage virtual m23 clients, that run on real m23 clients or the m23 server. Scripts and software packages (for installation on clients) can be created directly from the m23 web interface.

Nhopkg is a lightweight and powerfull package manager system for unix like operating systems. Nhopkg can install, remove, update, search and manage software packages (.nho).

This project includes 4 main modules to use with CUPS : "KUPS", a KDE administration front-end, "XPP", a light graphical printing frontend, "QTCUPS", a front-end and library for Qt, and "CUPS-DRIVERS", GS drivers which allow to print to any printer.

An Linux enhancement application which aims at providing enhancement tricks.

An advanced and feature rich Package Manager Frontend. By now supports Archlinux but is being extended to work with deb and rpm based distributions.

AppSnap is an application that simplifies installation of software. It automatically figures out the latest version, downloads the installer and then installs the software in one seamless step.

An SSL Postfix Management Interface in PHP/Ajax that handles all postfix parameters including Virtual Domains in LDAP.It handles all securities features by implementing all addons like Spamassassin,Clamav,Milter-greylist,amavis within technical skills

Comprosure will be a command line project that aims to ease the software installing/upgrading process on Debian systems. It is written in Linux Shell but will eventually get a Graphic interface.

Le projet DejaLinux vise la création d'un live-cd professionnel

With EZImageX no need to remember the difficult imagex.exe if you need to install customized images of Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1. You will need to get a copy of imagex because of licensing... You can get it in the Windows AIK for Windows 7.

Extras Explorer is a GUI application, which allows to browse information about software, install or run it.