Open Source Software Distribution Software

Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)

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.

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers

Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. Provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

MoviX is a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing. eMoviX makes a CD able to play by itself all audio/video files it contains (DivX, XviD, QuickTime, MP3 etc.). MoviX&MoviX2 transform in secs yr PC in a powerful MM box.

cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables using many of the techniques found in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself

Jar Installer is a java based program for creating self-extracting installation packages through a GUI. Just select your files, logo and create a jar file which can be double clicked for installation.

Both forward-chaining and backward-chaining rules (which may include python code) are compiled into python. Can also automatically assemble python programs out of python functions which are attached to backward-chaining rules. See pyke.sourceforge.ne

Open Information Systems for Emergency Services (Open ISES) is a community of software developers, paramedics, EMTs, law enforcement & fire fighters working together to create open source software & training materials for the emergency service community.

InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer and builder. InstallJammer is no longer under active development.

ReHash is an easy-to-use console-based hash calculation tool written in C++. It supports many algorithms and output formats and it can be fully configured using some of the many command-line arguments which can be passed to the tool.

An open-source implementation of the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP). This will bring JNLP functionality to almost any platform that supports Java.

An easy to use Development Environment for OS developers to design, write, compile, test, and publish new or existing OS projects with ease.

Sensa is not an operating system, is a work environment compatible with Android © 4.4.4, Firefox OS ©, Linux Ubuntu 12.12 ©, MacOS Classic 7 ©, MS -DOS © operating systems, and Microsoft Windows 8.1 ©; whose distribution is free, and with source code available under GNU GPL 2.0 license .

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

TOS is a lightweight distributed computing middleware platform. It provides a secure message passing mechanism and a simple framework for implementing application specific message handlers (extensions).

The CMS-Bandits is a set of php scripts, with online html editor, calendar, search engine, rss reader, revision log, personal nickpage, comment system, webcrawler and even more.

Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.

The Arc-live(X86-i386)is a distribution live dvd and pendrive with automatic hardware detection and is now included the kernel-3.2.0-4-486/3.2.0-4-686-pae(arc-live-1.0.1-wheezy stable with live-installer).

The Node Director is a tool for managing distributed, hetergeneous UNIX Systems. Its functionality includes System Configuration, Application Distribution, NIS & NIS+ Management, User Creation and Dynamic System Documentation.

Unattended installation of several Linux(kickstart,preseed,autoyast) and Windows(2000,XP,2003,2003R2,Vista,7,8,,10,112008,2012,2016,2019,2022,2025). Features: inventory, software management, dhcp-ldap, dns-ldap, php-ssh, syslog-ng, rsyslog, switch managment, ldap browser, pxe manager, central cron management, license management, guacomole integration.

Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal script for Windows. Can be run as a service to install software in the background without user interaction. See http://wpkg.org/ for more info and downloads. See http://lists.wpkg.org/ for mailing lists.

This is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.

WOMP! is a micro linux distribution focussed on multimedia for playing DivX MPEG mp3 ogg jpeg gif etc. It runs on a bootable CD without installing anything on the computer.