Open Source Windows 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

This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or distributing applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 and together with some third-party redistributable components. Notes and Disclaimer: * Visual Basic 6.0 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. * All trademarks and components are owned by their respective owners. * The developer's scope was the collection of VB6 redistributables and creation of installer only. * Use at your own risk, the developers was not responsible for any damages for using this software.

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

A distutils extension to create standalone windows programs from python scripts.

A pre-configured MinGW focused on ease of use, integration, workflow and completeness. It's also portable and isolated OSS distro.

JSmooth creates standard Windows executable files (.exe) that smartly launch java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find and run Java VMs by itself, or help the user get one if none are available.

NSISBI aims to remove the current 2GB limit found in NSIS. This version adds support for using a separate file for storing the install data, therefore allowing installer sizes up to a theoretical max size of 8EB (this is controlled by NSIS_CONFIG_EXTERNAL_FILE_SUPPORT, this is turned on by default). On versions before 7069-1, the compiler (makensis) is designed to run on 64 bit machines as this is the feature needed to make installers bigger than 2GB. On versions before 7208-1, source files added to the installer are limited to 2GB per file (this is controlled by NSIS_CONFIG_LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT, this is turned on by default). This project is the result of several different experiments focused on relieving the 2GB limit in NSIS, so it's still a work in progress. I'll try to keep it up to date with each major NSIS release.

nodist is a natural node.js and npm version manager for Windows, inspired by n. and nodenv. It's designed to replace any existing node.js installation, so if node is already installed on your machine, you need to uninstall it first.

Use Apache HBase™ when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables, billions of rows X millions of columns, atop clusters of commodity hardware. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable. A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS. Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options. Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files or Ganglia; or via JMX. Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with Apache HBase tables.

The tool is designed for IT Professionals to troubleshoot SMS/SCCM Client related Issues. The SCCM Client Center provides a quick and easy overview of client settings, including running services and SCCM settings in a good easy to use, user interface. Project has moved to: https://sccmclictr.codeplex.com/

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.

ISO2USB utility creates bootable USB drive from CentOS/RedHat 5.x/6.x installation disk or corresponding ISO image. Created USB drive may be used to perform installation on machines that lacks optical drive.

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

Npackd is a free Windows package manager that also serves as an installer and app store for Windows apps. With Npackd you can find and install software in minutes with absolutely no adware or other distractions. Apart from finding and installing software, it can keep your system updated and uninstall apps when no longer necessary. Installing and uninstalling apps is completely automated (silent or unattended installation and un-installation), making app management a breeze.

ASuite is an application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.

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.

WixEdit is an editor for XML source code of the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. WixEdit lets you create MSI and MSM setup packages with the WiX Toolset. It provides a visual representation of the dialogs and an easy way to edit the WiX source files. (Project moved to Github: https://github.com/WixEdit/WixEdit)

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

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

Local Update Publisher allows system administrators to publish their own updates to Windows Server Update Services using WSUS local publishing.

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.

Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance and reliability, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability. Messaging patterns including publish/subscribe, request/reply and streaming. Financial grade transactional message. Built-in fault tolerance and high availability configuration options base on DLedger. A variety of cross language clients, such as Java, C/C++, Python, Go. Pluggable transport protocols, such as TCP, SSL, AIO. Built-in message tracing capability, also support opentracing. Versatile big-data and streaming ecosytem integration. Message retroactivity by time or offset. Reliable FIFO and strict ordered messaging in the same queue. Efficient pull and push consumption model. Million-level message accumulation capacity in a single queue. Multiple messaging protocols like JMS and OpenMessaging. Flexible distributed scale-out deployment architecture. Lightning-fast batch message exchange system.

Pluggable foundation blocks for building loosely coupled distributed apps. Includes implementations in Redis, Azure, AWS, RabbitMQ and in memory (for development). When building several big cloud applications we found a lack of great solutions (that's not to say there aren't solutions out there) for many key pieces to building scalable distributed applications while keeping the development experience simple. Wanted to build against abstract interfaces so that we could easily change implementations. Wanted the blocks to be dependency injection friendly. We were initially using an open-source Redis cache client but then it turned into a commercial product with high licensing costs. Not only that but there weren't any in-memory implementations so every developer was required to set up and configure Redis. We initially looked at NServiceBus (a great product) but it had high licensing costs (they have to eat too) and was not OSS friendly.