Open Source System Shells

CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.

Squirrel Shell is a cross-platform alternative to system shells like bash in Linux and cmd.exe in Microsoft Windows. It is based on scripting language "Squirrel".

TeutonPE is inspired by PortableApps.com combined with a PeBuilder compiled Boot USB / CD. Programs can be used, even when there is no OS installed. BB4win is used for Live Menu and as the default Shell.All Plugins are also BartPE & XPE compatible

Remote Desktop Client for the GNOME Desktop. Supported protocols: RDP, VNC, SSH. Configured sessions can be saved to the built in list. Additional programs required: rdesktop, tightvnc, ssh, gnome-terminal. Application can be run with Mono runtime.

scponly is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges.

JaguiD is a Java GUI for DOS. It consists of several sub-projects including a Java Compiler, a Class Runner and a Jar Packager. JaguiD has limited Java support to provide a Graphical User Interface for DOS and compatibles.

pipestatus - source file for UNIX/POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.

A set of functions for KSH and BASH in a sourceable file. Typical functions include calculating differences between dates, going forward or back any number of days. Works for dates AD only. Some issues will arise when today > 2099...

SBD is a way of leaving ultra-secure minimal access to a computer, which allows you to run a single command based on a one time key. It is good if you don't want to have an ssh server running all the time, but only want to start it when needed.

KTable is a custom SWT table widget that provides a flexible grid of cells to display data. Since it is custom-drawn, it does not have the restrictions of the native SWT Table control.

Hosh is a shell for fun. There are commands like "make world" as well as "configure" which checks the whole machine - even the power status and the coffee temperature.

The goal of the Basic Operating System (BOS) project is to write a new modular and fast operating system in NASM and GCC.

Dreamos is an operating system developed on Sega Dreamcast to be ported to an array of embedded devices. The goal of the project is to be able to run non-ported Unix programs on the Sega Dreamcast and other embedded devices with ease and POSIX compliance

TinyTcl is a tiny version of Tcl, for small footprint machines and embeddable/rommable applications. It is derived from Tcl 6.7 and compiles to less than 60K, 10X smaller than Tcl 7 and Tcl 8.

The xml-coreutils are simple shell command line tools which operate directly on XML files in a way which is analogous to the classical unix shell commands.

uniread - universal readline - adds full readline support (command editing, history, etc.) to any existing interactive command-line program. Common examples are Oracle's sqlplus or jython. uniread will work on any POSIX platform with Perl.

A VNC Client for J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition). This includes a side project, an easy to use, clean java API for the RFB protocall. This project is now dead. Please see: https://sourceforge.net/projects/j2mevncclient/

JCmd is a pure Java command shell that is highly configurable and extensible.

ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.

Shell.NET is a set of console and winform applications written in C#. It features nearly 100 applications ranging from classical Unix applications like basename, cal, grep, tr, uniq, and wc, to some very unique tools like RunScript or TextTransform.

An alternative to the POSIX standard to be used by "alternative" OS developers.

cdu (for Color du) is a perl script which call du and display a pretty histogram with optional colors which allow to imediatly see the directories which take disk space. With no arguments, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the current directory. With only one directory argument, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the given directory. You can also call du with no predefined options. For more documentation about available options, see the manpage below.

Babya System is a free shell replacement that is Windows XP compatible and easy to use. It has many useful features-like Babya Discoverer, which has automatic popup ad blocking, and easy access to Windows Control Panel applets.

pathmgr is a script that helps manage environment variables in bash. Persistently edit variables with commands like 'path edit APP_HOME'. Change vars used in your path and then reload with 'path load PATH'. And there is more...

Bash Startup Library replaces your .bashrc and .bash_profile and simplifies the setting up of the environment on any bash-capable system. It also attempts to provide the same operating environment (GNU by default) no matter what system you are on.