Gaia Booting

Did you know that there's a quasi-hidden feature in Snow Leopard that will make your Macintosh run faster across the board at the expense of some backward compatibility? Or are you an Xserve or Mac OS X Server user that has to revert to the older kernel in order to use older software?... Platforms: Mac

DevManView is a freeware application that presents itself as an alternative to the standard Device Manager, but it displays all devices and their properties in flat table, instead of tree viewer. In addition to displaying the devices of your local computer, DevManView also allows you view the... Platforms: Windows, XP, 2003, Windows Vista, 2008, 7

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you're making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite... Platforms: Linux

TMGS Computer Diagnostics is a collection of the best free computer diagnostics packaged in a bootable USB flash drive format. TMGS Computer Diagnostics provides tests for the following areas: Detailed System Information, Memory Test, Hard Disk Test, Optical Drive Test, Display Test, Keyboard... Platforms: Windows

SLAX Server Edition is a pocket operating system with many internet services ready to use. Includes DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, MySQL, SMTP, POP3, IMAP and SSH. SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. SLAX distirbution runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without... Platforms: *nix

GaiaOnline Avbar allows you to change your GaiaOnline avatar from anywhere, any time! Avbar opens a miniature version of your inventory that you can use to change and save your avatar without even being on Gaia! Even if youre on Gaia all the time, the Avbar can still serve as a quick... Platforms: *nix

MySQL Pack for QNAP TS-101/TS-201 was created to install MySQL on the QNAP NAS server, TS-101/TS-201. It contains a pre-compiled MySQL server and install programs. The php module supporting MySQL client will be also included if its necessary. The Pack also contains simple webpages for start/stop... Platforms: *nix

Mac Dream Tool lets you create CD's that will play in an appropriate SEGA DreamCast. You can create CD's that have one or more of your favorite emulators to play on your DreamCast game system.This App does not help you burn actual DreamCast games in any way!Inducer - Enables you to put multiple... Platforms: Mac

Puppy Linux is an evolutionary operating system, based on GNU Linux. Whats different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full featured. Puppy Linux can boot into a 64MB ramdisk, and thats it, the whole caboodle runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep... Platforms: *nix

PXE Knife is a tool for booting various floppy based utilities via syslinux, allowing them to be booted off a CD, a hard drive, or over the network via PXE. PXE Knife can be used with a number of commonly used tools such as hard drive manufacturers utilities, memory testers, Linux recovery... Platforms: *nix

The Auditor security collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. Independent of the hardware in use, the Auditor security collection offers a standardised working... Platforms: *nix

ERUNT can backup the registry and restore it directly from Windows, from "safemode" and from a boot disk, also includes an optional registry optimizer. The registry is one of the most important parts in every Windows system and quite sensitive to corruption, it is very advisable to backup its... Platforms: Windows

Relax and Recover (abbreviated rear) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored via the network, local on hard disks or USB devices, DVD/CD-R, tape, etc. The result is also a bootable image... Platforms: *nix

Gaia Ajax Widgets is an Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono. The project is a "high-level library", meaning it abstracts away JavaScript 100%, and the developer doesnt have to write anything other than his favorite .Net language like C#, VB.NET, IronPython, or Boo (Mono). Gaia is not your average... Platforms: *nix

ServersCheck Remote Booting enables you to reboot a server or PC remotely from any web browser, using a password protected interface. It runs as a service on the host machine and performs a forced reboot, even if applications are hanging or not responding. In addition to rebooting the machine,... Platforms: Windows

During reinstalling Windows on your PC, you inevitably end up losing your installed third party software and perhaps their license keys too. Before you reinstall Windows, it is essential that you note down the license keys for all the installed software in Windows. If you want to find and save... Platforms: Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest... Platforms: *nix

Crash Recovery for Linux sounds a bit superfluous. Linux is regarded as one of todays most stable Operating Systems. In the case of some hardware failure like a broken disk it can however be handy. Of course your machine doesnt have to have linux installed to make use of the CRK kit. There are... Platforms: *nix

SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. SLAX distirbution runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. The primary goal of... Platforms: *nix

Linux on a Stick is an attempt to make a Live-CD/USB-Flash server Linux distro. At its heart is a very small and simple Linux distro that boots off CD/Flash and runs from RAM (Ie no spinning hard drives of death). This approach allows us to strip the OS to its very basic components, which... Platforms: *nix