Open Source Linux Boot Software - Page 4

Open Source Video ROM implementation for AMD Radeon grafics cards.

Choose-OS (chos), is a modular and configurable boot loader for Linux/x86 - a program that is loaded by the BIOS before any operating systems. This program then lets you choose the operating system to boot and possibly enter parameters to it

MKG automates the installation of the Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution. It follows the official AMD64 install handbook, with a limited number of configuration options. It creates a desktop platform compiled out of the latest available sources in the stable branch. MKG can install Gentoo on a device, and/or create an installation ISO file that holds on a single DVD. MKG also backs up any device into a recovery medium. The output is a direct install to disk and/or an installation medium (ISO file, DVD, or bootable USB stick). MKG target users who would like to experiment with Gentoo. It will also help out users who already know how to install and manage Gentoo, yet forgot to back up their OS for some time and need a fast recovery tool. It will also be appreciated by users who bumped into intractable dependency conflicts and are looking for a quick way out.

radiOS is a ham radio-centric, customized version of Arch Linux. Arch is generally recommended to experienced Linux users but radiOS should help you to get to know one of the most versatile and fun Linux distributions around. Not to mention use your radio without having to compile a bunch of programs yourself. radiOS comes with tools for use with amateur radio, especially SOTA, POTA, and GNU Radio Companion with HackRF Software Defined Radio. If it doesn't work as expected, or you would like to request additional functionality, please let me know. -This ISO is a live image but all the tools to install Arch Linux are included. -Right click anywhere for a menu. Connect to wifi via Network Manager in the System Utilities sub-menu. -As of 01JUNE2024 all packages have been updated, some have been removed due to difficulty in maintaining non-standard package dependencies, some useful links were added to Firefox, as well as a sample GRC for an SDR FM receiver.

Embedded PowerPC Bootloader Project, especially for Embedded PowerPC boards. The code for this project is frozen. Development continues with the "U-Boot" project (Universal Boot Loader, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot ).

Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.

Smoothly integrated in KDE System Settings, it is the central place for managing your GRUB2 configuration.

Pearl's first Pantheon release. The Pearl 7.1 base (18.04) is where this version starts but has many familiar features the folks familiar with Elementary OS and will feel at home but not quite because as Usual we like to twist it up a bit. The just released of Elementary OS is great and now the Pearl Linux version of Elementary OS with the standard Pearl defaults including compiz for desktop effects available threw the Pearl Window Manager Switcher. For updates we chose to not use the normal way we do updates on other current Pearl releases which is by means of PearlUpdate, which is our version of MintUpdate from Linux Mint. Updates are handled with the default of the Pantheon Desktop Environment to keep the Elementary OS feel as default. Easily installs UEFI on older Mac Book Pro's. For the inexperienced, after install just create a ReFind bootable usb thumb drive available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.11.4/refind-flashdrive-0.11.4.zip/download

UEFI fdisk is a port to UEFI of the famous fdisk partitioning tool from util-linux, see https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux . Now since this program runs directly under UEFI shell you don't need to *boot* the system to edit partition tables.

The cloud boot services support booting to DRBL, Clonezilla, GParted LiveCD and more linux distributions from iPXE( or gPXE) kernel.

This is a branch from the fxload project, originally part of the linux-hotplug SourceForge project which seems to be abandoned. This branch incorporates the patch from Steven J. Magnani that adds support for Cypress FX3 USB 3.0 endpoint to the fxload utility. It has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 with the FX3 development kit (part number CYUSB3KIT-001). Oddly, as of January 2013 Cypress doesn't include this utility with its (open source) Linux SDK but requires developers to purchase a copy of MS Windows to be able to program the board. This SourceForge project contains no new code.

This tool allows to boot linux-m68k from a floppy on a macintosh motorola 68K based. With it, you can create rescue disk, or remove the MacOS partition (needed by the legacy penguin booter) from your HD.

serel is software that helps computers boot faster. serel adds synchronisation and integrity-checking to the operating system service startup phase, allowing a computer's services to start in parallel.

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization data and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS chart.

Linksys kindly provides a tarball with source code to the NAS200 firmware which can be used by users to build their own firmware, and add improvements. This project will be the place where those improvements are gathered.

Sets out to be an innovative new operating system while retaining compatibility with POSIX and Win32

aboot is the Linux bootloader for Alpha systems using the SRM console. This package also includes the utilities isomarkboot, swriteboot and sdisklabel.

Getwifi allows Linux users to join wireless networks easily by joining available networks in an order specified by the user. Getwifi is configured using a single file which specifies networks, optional WEP keys, and the order in which to join networks.

mbldr is a boot loader which fits into first sector of an HDD (MBR). It allows to choose which partition to boot and is intended to replace an MBR coming with DOS/Windows (fdisk /mbr). It may boot OSes above 1024cyl, Linux/BSD are also supported.

Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) is a full-featured free boot manager with a real, easy-to-use and full-blown graphical user interface. XOSL-OW is an Open Watcom port of XOSL 1.1.5 (Dec 23, 2000) by Geurt Vos developed with Borland BC31.

The netboot project allows booting a diskless PC over a TCP/IP based network using standard protocols like BOOTP, DHCP and TFTP. It is able to boot Linux, FreeBSD, multiple DOS variants (including MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OpenDOS, NovellDOS, FreeDOS)

Streambox is a web interface for live mp3 streaming. It can be installed on a linux machine with one or more soundcards. Streambox is meant to be used as the only interface to the machine: it does not need a keyboard or monitor. Also StreamBOX is a CD

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This is a small program that reads and writes the WakeUp time in the BIOS. This is done via /dev/nvram on recent kernels (>2.4.6, including 2.6.x) or, alternatively, via direct ISA access. On this WakeUp time the computer is powered on automatically.

ARMboot is an Open-Source firmware suite for ARM based platforms. ARMboot is heavily based on the sister-project PPCboot, which provides similar functionality on PowerPC based systems. ARMboot shall be a common, easy-to-use and easy-to-port boot platform