Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Boot Software

Boot Software for Desktop Operating Systems

Browse free open source Boot software and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Boot software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment
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    Downloads: 556 This Week
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    IMPORTANT NEWS: UPX has moved to GitHub https://upx.github.io ========================
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    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OS.
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    XOSL is a graphical boot manager that supports multi-booting of various operating systems. Development is currently done under the XOSL2 title. Historical version download below:
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    Downloads: 6 This Week
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  • 5
    This software boots your PC and analyse your filesystems. It displays a graphical menu for you to select which system to boot. Intended to replace LILO and Loadlin, written in C with GCC, fully real mode.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    AiR-Boot is a x86 boot-loader that resides completely in track 0 of the harddrive. It‘s also independent of any OS, features a BIOS-like built-in setup, is localized to German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian (including Cyrillic) and Swedish.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    A 21 Century Boot system for the Tandy Color Computer series of 1980's computers. The aim is to create a unified, scriptable boot system for both new and old storage devices * THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN MOVED TO: https://code.google.com/p/legsforth/
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This project develops and maintains the C-ONE boot code.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 10
    Disaster Recovery boot environment for Linux, WinXXX, BSD, Solaris http://www.dctools.org
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there
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    Firefly failsafe

    Firefly failsafe

    failsafe image for illumos based distributions

    Firefly is small failsafe image for illumos based distributions
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    This is a java version of the famous fortune game from BSD. I am writing this program in java so that people can have a platform independent version of this great utility. I am also hoping to add some features and make jfortune fun to use.
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    Several small projects; A simple UDP chat program in visual basic, a full screen movie player, a tv guide program for Canberra, Australia
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A selection of programs without any real sense.
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    A microkernel operating system distribution offering (among other things) very low hardware requirements, full and easy portability and easy-readable source code.
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    Perix is a MS-DOS compatible program, capable of running without an underlining OS. It is written in Turbo Pascal and Assembly. All parts of system are distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
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    This project is based off of Sam Rape. The final product is a bootable floppy which copies the sam file, compresses it and puts it on a disk. A detailed description can be found at datastronghold.com/archive/t10429.html
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    A little program to quickly shutdown or restart your PC or put it in Standby Mode and even to abort the shutdown process.
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    This is Rivoreo custom edition of the sysvinit program. The original sysvinit project page is at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/ The original sysvinit Debian package project page is at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sysvinit/
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    The aim of this project is to provide an open source GPLv2 version of U-Boot second level bootloader, which will load, initialize and start the PowerPC-native version of AROS Research Operating System.
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    Merge the Solaris downstream version of GRUB legacy GPL source code into GRUB4DOS
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    This is a really simple BOOTP server, which uses NIS maps to retrieve host information (host name, IP address).
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    Backups specified files (e.g. system/ini files); Newer versions optimized for windows compatibility (backups regestry & some system files) Written in QuickBasic 4.5
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    moerAskip enables the user to save, edit and switch network profiles. These profiles will include ip address, dns, printer, samba, webserver, desktop apps etc. settings. As of version 0.3 moerAskip will run on all platforms.
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