Software Map

gPXE is a network bootloader. It provides a direct
replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs, with many
extra features such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, and more.

atftp is a client/server implementation of the TFTP protocol that implements RFCs 1350, 2090, 2347, 2348, and 2349. The server is multi-threaded and the client presents a friendly interface using libreadline. The current server implementation lacks IPv6 support.

ThinTUX is a small Linux distribution for thin
clients. It has support for all major remote
access protocols like ICA, RDP, XDM, telnet, ssh,
and more. The distribution can be booted from the
network using a network card with PXE-support or
from standard media storage devices like floppy,
CD, hard disk, or disk-on-chip. The configuration
is stored on a DHCP server to simplify terminal
management.

CD Shell is a scriptable menu system that provides
the ability to create interactive multi-boot
optical discs. It will make PC-bootable compact
discs or DVDs that can select from several program
loaders or kernels located on the disc, or boot
from other local disk drives that are attached to
the system.

ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft
compatible boot records. The program does the same
as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys
d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it
does not copy any system files (only the boot
record is written).

s6 is a complete process supervision suite in the style of daemontools, runit, and perp. It provides a candidate for process 1. It also comes with a library and command line utilities that implement inter-process notification and synchronization.

Suspend2 allows you to hibernate your machine without needing APM, BIOS, or ACPI support. It creates an image that is saved in your active swap partitions, swap files, ordinary files or (soon) across a network. At the next system boot, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as if you'd never powered down.

runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision; a replacement for sysvinit and other init schemes. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.

Etherboot is a free software package for making
boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating
systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone
machines over a network using Internet protocols,
namely DHCP and tftp.

tomsrtbt is the most Linux on one floppy disk for rescue recovery panic and emergencies, contains tools to keep in your shirt pockets, is useful whenever you can't use a hard drive and contains about 100 rescue tools.