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GNU GRUB
Claimed by GNU Analyzed about 15 hours ago
GRUB is the GRand Unified Bootloader.
Licenses:
gpl3_or_l...
systemd
Analyzed about 9 hours ago
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups
Licenses:
lgpl21_or...
U-Boot
Analyzed about 22 hours ago
A boot loader for Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and other processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application code.
The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of the source code
coreboot
Analyzed about 3 hours ago
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 payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2
OpenRC
Claimed by Gentoo Foundation Analyzed 1 day ago
An OS-agnostic Run Control system, derived from Gentoo Linux's baselayout. Works on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Licenses:
BSD-3-Clause
SystemRescueCd
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Analyzed 12 months ago
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 utilities (such as parted, partimage, and
Licenses:
No declared licenses
Syslinux
Analyzed about 5 hours ago
SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates on Linux EXT2/EXT3 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.
SYSLINUX has an advanced extension API and contains two optional menu systems. It also includes
Etherboot
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No analysis available
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.
Etherboot has not been actively maintained for several years. Users should upgrade to iPXE.
Mostly written in language not available
Licenses:
No declared licenses
The Barebox Bootloader
Analyzed 1 day ago
Barebox (formerly known as u-boot-v2) is a bootloader that inherits the best of U-Boot and the Linux kernel: The size and look-and-feel of u-boot, with driver model and lots of design concepts from the Linux kernel.
OpenBIOS
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Analyzed about 17 hours ago
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 firmware.
Among its features, Open Firmware