Combat Boot

bicl is a tool for editing the built-in command line boot arguments in binary files like the PPC64 Linux compressed kernel image and the PPC64 Xen compressed hypervisor boot image. he boot argument processing for powerpc Xen is much less complex than it may appear. Assuming that the Simplify...

Borg Live is a bootable CD-Rom containing a GNU/Linux operative system, that permits you to boot directly from the CD, without the need of an hard disk installation . The system is based on Slax , the Slackware Linux Live CD..

boottool and Linux::Bootloader provide a generic interface for detecting the installed bootloader, updating bootloader configuration files, and performing boot-once to a given kernel. Supported bootloaders include grub, yaboot, lilo and elilo. There are essentially four major pieces in this...


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Upstart project is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. It is being developed for the Ubuntu distribution, but is intended to be suitable for...


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Dariks Boot and Nuke, known as DBAN, is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction..


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pyD20 project is a combat manager for D20 or DND3e. pyD20 is a combat manager meant to be used by a DM while playing the D20/DND3e role-playing game. Its features include a pyGTK2/Glade interface, the ability to track combatants, initiatives, and HP, the ability to reassign initiatives during...


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Laptops which use dynamic IP address assignment via DHCP have the problem that the boot process is much longer when no wire is connected to the Ethernet card. This is because the startup scripts have to wait for the DHCP request to time out. ethwireck can detect if the physical layer of the...


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This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written.


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Interstate Outlaws its a vehicular combat game in the spirit of the Interstate games. Interstate Outlaws (IO) is a vehicular death match based game created by mostly by college students from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. It uses Crystal Space, CEL, and ODE. It is written in...


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BootRoot creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd image. The initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2) filesystem. The root filesystem isnt made by this program, but there lots of compressed filesytems out there to use. You can use a bzip2...


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SLAMPP is a generic linux distribution which can boot and run directly off CD-ROM and has possibility to be installed onto harddisk. SLAMPP Live CD is designed to be used as an instant home server. Just like another linux live CD available at this moment, SLAMPP gives a linux newbie a chance to...


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Splashy is a boot splash program that doesnt require patching the Linux kernel. Splashy project paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb. ----------------------------------------------------------------- VGA settings...


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Early Macintosh Image LoadEr allows to boot linux-m68k from a floppy on a macintosh such as MacII or Quadra 610. With it, you can create rescue disk, or remove the MacOS partition (needed by the legacy penguin booter) from your HD. Create a floppy from rescue disk image You can find floppy...


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Diskless Remote Boot in Linux in short DRBL is an open source environment to to manage GNU/Linux operating system deployment. Imagine the time required to install GNU/Linux on 40, 30, or even 10 client machines individually. DRBL will allow you to configure all of your client computers by...


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PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility boot disk distribution. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs. It is great for partition maintenance and for rescue purposes. The latest...


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Pentoo is a Linux LiveCD, it means that you can boot a linux environment on any x86 based PC. It is like KNOPPIX except that Pentoo is based on the Gentoo distribution and is oriented penetration testing. You can view the list of all available tools here . Well, I know there is already many...


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The Deimos Project project is a 3D space combat simulator and modular game library collection. The Deimos Project is a 3D space combat simulator and modular game library collection. It includes a 3D modeler designed with a programmers needs in mind. It allows you to construct 3D models by...


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FACHODA Complex project is a fast air combat simulator. Fachoda Complex is a little game I wrote about 10 years ago. I coded this in 3 or 4 months while I was iddle. I was young and brave, then, but had never learned to code cleanly. Sounds is now broken. It worked on Gravis Ultrasound. The...


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eMoviX is a package that allows you to create bootable CDs able to boot & autoplay your multimedia files. It is intended mainly to play video files but if you want it can be used to play also audio files. I plan to release eventually a distro similar to eMoviX but aimed at audio only, so stay...


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ACM is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation. Players engage in air to air combat against one another using heat seeking missiles and cannons. ACM has support for 16, 24, and 32 bit graphics cards..


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