Projects tagged ‘boot’


[21 total ]
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GNU GRUB

   
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

GRUB is the GRand Unified Bootloader.

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

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SystemRescueCd

 
Primary Language: shell script

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system ... [More] utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools). It also includes QtParted, a Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitons easy with its Qt graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and accessible to everybody. [Less]

Metrics updated 06 Jun 07

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U-Boot

 
Primary Language: C

the Universal Boot Loader

Metrics updated 20 Aug 08

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Etherboot

 
Primary Language: C

Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone machines over a network using Internet protocols, namely DHCP and tftp.

Metrics updated 01 Oct 08

8

coreboot

 
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called ... [More] payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. [Less]

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

5

The LGPL'd PC BIOS

   
Primary Language: C

The goal of this project is to have a LGPL'd PC BIOS for Plex86, Bochs and Qemu. Also long term plan is making it safe for use on real hardware.

Metrics updated about 1 hour ago

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OpenRC

 
Primary Language: C Licensed as: BSD-ish License

An OS-agnostic Run Control system, derived from Gentoo Linux's baselayout. Works on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.

Metrics updated 30 Sep 08

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GnomeSword Bible Study Software

   
Primary Language: C

GnomeSword is a Bible study tool for GNOME that uses the Sword modules. It lets you read, search, add formatted notes to verses, bookmark passages, and reference commentary and lexicon modules.

Metrics updated 03 Oct 08

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OpenBIOS

 
Primary Language: C Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Open Source Open Firmware implementation. The OpenBIOS project provides you with most free and open source Open Firmware implementations available. Here you find several implementations of IEEE 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware) compliant ... [More] firmware. Among its features, Open Firmware provides an instruction set independent device interface. This can be used to boot the operating system from expansion cards without native initialization code. It is Open Firmware's goal to work on all common platforms, like x86, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM and Mips. With its flexible and modular design, Open Firmware targets servers, workstations and embedded systems, where a sane and unified firmware is a crucial design goal and reduces porting efforts noticably. [Less]

Metrics updated 01 Oct 08

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Umigumi

   
Primary Language: Python Licensed as: GNU General Public License 2.0

Umigumi simplifies the gerenation of custom Linux distributions and their deployment on various media: Flash memory cards, LiveCD, hard disk, etc. Umigumi has been originally developped by the OpenBrick community for the OpenBrick open embedded platform and is now the tool of choice to generate ERP5 Live CDs.

Metrics updated 19 Feb 07