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View 1435 business solutionsBrowse free open source Boot software and projects for Linux 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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Auth0 for AI Agents now in GAConnect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.
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Stay in Flow. Let Zenflow Handle the Heavy Lifting.Zenflow is your engineering control center, turning specs into shipped features. Parallel agents handle coding, testing, and refactoring with real repo context. Multi-agent workflows remove bottlenecks and automate routine work so developers stay focused and in flow.
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Ventoy
A New Bootable USB Solution
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way. Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen...) 1100+ ISO files are tested, 90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported. -
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WoeUSB
A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux
A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux. -
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boot-repair-disk
A rescue disk that includes the Boot Repair tool
See http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home -
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Etcher
A safe way to flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives
Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher. It protects a user from accidentally overwriting hard-drives by making drive selection obvious; and with validated flashing there is no more writing images to corrupted drives. It is also called balenaEtcher since it is developed by balena. In addition, Etcher can flash directly Raspberry Pi devices that support usbboot. Use for .iso and .img files, as well as zipped folders to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. Written with Electron for cross platform use (windows, macOS, and Linux). -
eProcurement SoftwareeBuyerAssist by Eyvo is a cloud-based procurement solution designed for businesses of all sizes and industries. Fully modular and scalable, it streamlines the entire procurement lifecycle—from requisition to fulfillment. The platform includes powerful tools for strategic sourcing, supplier management, warehouse operations, and contract oversight. Additional modules cover purchase orders, approval workflows, inventory and asset management, customer orders, budget control, cost accounting, invoice matching, vendor credit checks, and risk analysis. eBuyerAssist centralizes all procurement functions into a single, easy-to-use system—improving visibility, control, and efficiency across your organization. Whether you're aiming to reduce costs, enhance compliance, or align procurement with broader business goals, eBuyerAssist helps you get there faster, smarter, and with measurable results.
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rEFInd
An EFI boot manager utility
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries. -
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Magisk
Suite of open source tools for customizing Android
Magisk is a suite of tools intended for Android customization, and supports devices higher than Android 4.2. Some elements of Android customization are root, boot scripts, SELinux patches, AVB2.0 / dm-verity / forceencrypt removals, etc. Some of the most important features of Magisk are that it provides root access to your device and it modifies read-only partitions when installing modules. Also, you can hide Magisk from root detections / system integrity checks. Magisk comes with a huge collections of tools for installation, daemons, and utilities for developers. Magisk contains MagiskSU, Magisk Modules and MagiskHide features. -
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The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem Utilities (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.
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Super Grub2 Disk
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means. -
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USB_FORMAT
Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions
USB Format Tool - Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions. USB Multi-Boot of Linux ISO + Windows 10 VHD + Win10XPE in BIOS Or UEFI Secure mode. -
Say goodbye to broken revenue funnels and poor customer experiencesLeanData is a Demand Management solution that supports all go-to-market strategies such as account-based sales development, geo-based territories, and more. LeanData features a visual, intuitive workflow native to Salesforce that enables users to view their entire lead flow in one interface. LeanData allows users to access the drag-and-drop feature to route their leads. LeanData also features an algorithms match that uses multiple fields in Salesforce.
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UEFI_MULTI
UEFI_MULTI - Make Multi-Boot USB-Drive
UEFI_MULTI - Make Multi-Boot USB-Drive. USB Multi-Boot of Linux ISO + Windows 10 VHD + Win10XPE in BIOS Or UEFI Secure mode. Make Bootable USB Drive with MBR and 2 Partitions. UEFI Secure boot support requires Format Drive using Grub2 as EFI Manager. Copy and Rename your Linux ISO files to folder images on FAT32 USB Boot drive U-BOOT. -
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DHCP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Linux. MultiSubnet DHCP Server supports Dynamic, Static Leases, Relay Agents, BOOTP, PXEBOOT. Global, Range and Client Specific Options. Supports filtering of ranges on Mac Address, Vendor and User Class.
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FormatUsb
The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format USB flash drives
The FormatUsb tool is a reliable way to format USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks,SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card and SDXC Memory Card SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. -
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UNetbootin
Bootable live USB creator for Ubuntu, Fedora, and Linux distributions
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file. -
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MultiThreaded TFTP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Unix for PXEBOOT, firmware load, support tsize, blksize, timeout Server Port Ranges, Block Number Rollover for Large Files. Runs as Service/daemon. Single Port version also available. Download
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MultiOS-USB
Boot operating systems directly from ISO files
USB disk with multiple ISO files. Easy to use: install, copy ISO files and boot from USB. Display a list of currently supported operating systems. -
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rEFIt
Boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines
rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. -
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Clover EFI bootloader
Boot macOS, Windows, and Linux on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware
Project has moved to https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader. -
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AIO Boot
AIO Boot is a tool that can help you create a bootable USB with Grub2,
AIO Boot is a tool that can help you create a bootable USB with Grub2, Grub4dos, Syslinux, Clover and rEFInd. AIO Boot can boot Windows and most Linux distributions and boot via LAN using Tiny PXE Server. AIO Boot is constructed from a variety of sources, certainly still a lot of flaws, eager for sympathy. I would love to hear from you so that I can improve this tool better. -
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Portable VirtualBox for LiLi
Portable VirtualBox for LiLi
Specific version for Portable-VirtualBox for LinuxLive USB Creator. Additionnal features are : - Hybrid mode (can run portable AND regular virtualbox) - Automaticly virtualizes the USB device it is run from -
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Network Security Toolkit (NST)
A network security analysis and monitoring toolkit Linux distribution.
Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines. -
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WinDiskWriter
Windows Bootable USB creator for macOS
Windows USB disk creator for macOS. You can use this app to create bootable universal USB Windows installers that support both UEFI and Legacy BIOS modes. With this USB drive, you can install and enjoy Windows on your PC, Intel Mac, or certain Virtual Machines. WinDiskWriter knows how to make a bootable drive for each Windows Image type. You can bypass TPM, Minimum RAM, Secure Boot, and some other System Requirements set by Microsoft for Windows 11. You can create an all-in-one USB drive that supports both UEFI and Legacy boot modes. It's required if you want to install Windows on computers with old firmware that doesn't support EFI booting. Additional steps are required to get these versions to boot on EFI, such as extracting an EFI-capable bootloader from the installer. WinDiskWriter does it for you. -
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Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk
Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk: Boot any OS or .efi file
Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk is a proof-of-concept (not actively maintained or enhanced) bootable image with GRUB2 bootloader designed to be used as a base for recovery USB flash drives. Key feature: disk is fully functional with UEFI Secure Boot mode activated. It can launch any operating system or .efi file, even with untrusted, invalid or missing signature. -
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Kernelloader
Run Linux on the Playstation 2
Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by "Action Replay Media Player", by "memory card exploit", by "FMCB" or any other homebrew loading method. If you downloaded the latest Linux Live DVD, you need to run the online updater to be able to play Youtube videos. -
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MODOS - Linux for USB
(Former: G0ll0'Z SmollOS)
MODOS is a small Debian-based operating system featuring the Cinnamon desktop environment, designed to run directly from a USB drive. Using the Live CD, you can explore the system without installing it, though by default, changes are lost after shutdown or reboot. To enable persistent storage, use tools like Rufus. Key Features: Latest download version: v0.9 (based on Debian 13) Latest runnning version: v0.99 Cinnamon desktop environment for a modern and user-friendly interface Includes integrated #DODOS Tools Minimal storage requirement: 3 GB on your USB drive User Accounts: Root user: root (password: root) Sudo user: user (password: user) Note: MODOS is built on Linux-Live, so without persistence, all changes are temporary. For a fully persistent setup, creating the USB via Rufus is recommended.
