Utilities

Utilities written in PyQt5, meant for use with helloSystem.

This is a work in progress.

• No compilation needed, since PyQt5
• Focus on simplicity for the user
• Focus on simplicity in source code
• One Python source code file per app
• Tested on FreeBSD in helloSystem

Pull requests welcome.

Translations

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Boot Environments.app

Simple settings for ZFS Boot Environments.

Create Live Medium.app

Simple tool to download a Live ISO and write it to a device (e.g., USB stick) in one go.

Install helloSystem.app

Simple installer to install the Live ISO to disk.

Keyboard.app

Simple Keyboard Layout chooser

Sharing.app

Simple tool to set the hostname, enable/disable sshd, enable/disable x11vnc server

Zeroconf.app

Simple Zeroconf browser

Managing redundancy

Some files are intentionally redundant in each application bundle, so that each application bundle is standalone. The redundant files can be converted to hardlinks using

hardlink . -v -t -n # Dry run (change nothing, only explain)
hardlink . -v -t

This can be useful for making a change in all of the redundant copies at once.