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It is generally the closest thing to a Turnkey form of a usually GPL or Open Source source code for a software.

It usually takes the form of either rpm, deb, tgz, msi, exe etc. installer and is downloadable from the Internet .

Examples range from whole operating system distributions to server and interpreter distributions (for example WAMP installers).

They can be either official distributions by the makers of the software, or 3rd party distributions.

Notable is the fact that one using such 3rd party distributions will have to turn to the distribution maker for support, the developers of the actual software being distributed usually do not provide support for 3rd party distributions of their software.

Vendors of such software distributions systems include:
  • CapaSystems with CapaInstaller

  • Altiris with Deployment Solution

  • HP with Radia

  • matrix42 with Empirum

  • and GPL 'd solution for installation of Debian and Ubuntu systems.

  • Symantec with iCommand

  • BMC Software with Marimba

  • ManageSoft Corporation (www.ManageSoft.com)

  • Novell ZENworks

  • Microsoft SMS (Systems Management Server)

  • Vector Networks PC-Duo Enterprise Desktop Management and Support

  • Snow Software Enterprise Software Management

  • SSI Operating systems and software deployment from SoftService.




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Software distribution can also refer to commercial distribution methods such as Careware and Donateware .