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GNU GRUB

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Claimed by GNU Analyzed about 14 hours ago

GRUB is the GRand Unified Bootloader.

467K lines of code

42 current contributors

4 months since last commit

2,143 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.24522
   
1 Review
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl3_or_l...
Tags boot bootloader grub gui multiboot

systemd

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  Analyzed about 22 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 ... [More] , supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. [Less]

1M lines of code

308 current contributors

2 days since last commit

72 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
3.80769
   
2 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: lgpl21_or...
Tags boot c init init_daemon linux sysv

U-Boot

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  Analyzed about 11 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 ... [More] originate in the Linux source tree, we have some header files in common, and special provision has been made to support booting of Linux images. Some attention has been paid to make this software easily configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can load and run it dynamically. [Less]

3.02M lines of code

397 current contributors

2 days since last commit

71 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.8
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags arm avr32 blackfin boot bootloader embedded embeddedlinux embeddedsystems loader m68k microblaze mips 5 more...

coreboot

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  Analyzed 1 day 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 ... [More] , OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. [Less]

1.9M lines of code

171 current contributors

4 days since last commit

41 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.84615
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: GPL2
Tags bios boot cbfs clustering coreboot embedded firmware flash hardware lowlevel multiboot security 1 more...

OpenRC

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Claimed by Gentoo Foundation Analyzed about 12 hours ago

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

18.2K lines of code

1 current contributors

5 days since last commit

32 users on Open Hub

Moderate Activity
4.58824
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Tags boot c init init_daemon

SystemRescueCd

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  Analyzed about 2 years 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 ... [More] 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]

21K lines of code

1 current contributors

over 7 years since last commit

24 users on Open Hub

Activity Not Available
4.6
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in shell script
Licenses: No declared licenses
Tags backup boot bootcd cd distro linux livecd os partition recovery rescue security 7 more...

Syslinux

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  Analyzed about 24 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 ... [More] MEMDISK, a tool for booting legacy operating systems from non-traditional media like PXE or CD-ROM. [Less]

205K lines of code

0 current contributors

over 9 years since last commit

19 users on Open Hub

Inactive
4.66667
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags boot bootloader cdrom comboot el_torito linux linuxlivecd pxe

Etherboot

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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.

0 lines of code

0 current contributors

0 since last commit

14 users on Open Hub

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4.0
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in language not available
Licenses: No declared licenses
Tags boot clustering dhcp diskless ethernet hardware linux ltsp network networking pxe security 5 more...

The Barebox Bootloader

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  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.

1.04M lines of code

70 current contributors

8 days since last commit

11 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
5.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags arm blackfin boot bootloader embedded embeddedlinux embeddedsystems loader mips nios2 powerpc x86

OpenBIOS

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  Analyzed 1 day 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 ... [More] 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]

83.5K lines of code

2 current contributors

5 months since last commit

9 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
5.0
 
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: gpl
Tags bios boot firmware forth openfirmware