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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ Notes on possible Windows support
Services
========
-With the exception of 32/64 bit issues, Windows Services support should be pretty trivial; it would differ from *nix services in that it would be done via WMI API calls and not a 3rd party python module or wrapping a binary.
+With the exception of 32/64 bit issues, Windows Services support should
+be pretty trivial; it would differ from \*nix services in that it would be done via WMI API calls and not a 3rd party python module or wrapping a binary.
Registry
========
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ The best way of handling the registry may be to map it into a file-based represe
Files
=====
-For a first run there may be some way of utilizing [http://cygwin.com/ cygwin] to make use of the existing *nix POSIX module for manipulating files. There would probably need to be some changes to deal with the fact that open files can't be manipulated/moved/deleted at all in Windows (other than to do some registry magic that makes the changes on the next reboot).
+For a first run there may be some way of utilizing [http://cygwin.com/
+cygwin] to make use of the existing \*nix POSIX module for manipulating files. There would probably need to be some changes to deal with the fact that open files can't be manipulated/moved/deleted at all in Windows (other than to do some registry magic that makes the changes on the next reboot).
Packages
========
@@ -39,13 +41,17 @@ Prior FLOSS Art
* [http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ AutoIt] - For dealing with packages that don't have a silent install option
* [http://www.opensysadmin.com/trac/ticket/4 French Stuff]
+
* [http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/ Open Computers and Software Inventory - Next Generation]
* [http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique]
+
* Javascript thing a colleague of Desai's at ANL wrote - Desai was going to see if this can be released
* [http://sial.org/howto/cfengine/windows/ Managing Windows with CFEngine and Perl]
* [http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit/ Outwit] - Small unixy utilities for Windows stuff like the registry and clipboard
* [http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-NT/ Porting cfengine to Windows NT]
* [http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/ Real Men Don't Click] - Tobi Oetiker's stuff
+
* [http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/res/index.en.html More Prior FLOSS Art]
+
* [http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ Unattended] - Bare Metal Installs, Package Management
* [http://wpkg.org/ WPKG] - Package Management