Boot Locale

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...

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..

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...


Platforms: *nix

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.


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: *nix

KBoot project is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. KBoot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted. KBoot...


Platforms: *nix

Bootchart is a software for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS-encoded chart. The boot process is modified to start the boot...


Platforms: *nix

Apple Boot Desktop Theme is a desktop theme including wallpapers and screensavers. Optimized for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard.Use the wallpapers to get a nice backround on your desktop,choose between original gray apple, light gray apple and white appleUse the apple boot screensavers, wich are in...


Platforms: Mac

Want to access your PC anytime, anywhere, but don't like throwing money away to an always-on system? Now, PC in My Hand will help you realize your ideas: boot and control your system remotely by iPhone, ipad, Android, BlackBerry,Windows Mobile/PPC, Nokia/Symbian, Palm or other Notebook etc....


Platforms: Windows, Other

Lazesoft Windows Recovery Home Edition is free Windows system recovery bootable disk. Lazesoft Windows Recovery Home Edition offers home users complete solutions to fix boot problem, retrieve valuable files, Undelete Partition, etc. With easy to use interfaces, you can using Lazesoft Windows...


Platforms: Windows

NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use...


Platforms: All

GRUB4DOS can boot off DOS / LINUX, or via Windows boot manager / syslinux / lilo, or from MBR / CD. It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc. GRUB4DOS can be easily run via command-line so you can take it for a test drive to see what it's all about!


Platforms: Windows

Soluto is a great application that allows you to analyze your boot time, view which applications are slowing it down and improve it as you like. Soluto's goal is to bring an end to the frustrations PC users encounter. We have all come to expect our computers to be sluggish or unresponsive at...


Platforms: Windows