200 projects tagged "Boot"
Updated 08 Oct 2012
finit
| Pop | 72.46 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 2.71 |
finit is an extremely fast /sbin/init replacement with a focus on small embedded GNU/Linux systems. It is based on Claudio Matsuoka's original finit with I/O, service, and hook plugin extensions.
Updated 01 Apr 2013
systemd
| Pop | 253.39 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 9.94 |
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. It 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, 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.
Updated 12 Feb 2013
s6
| Pop | 140.29 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 7.46 |
s6 is a complete process supervision suite in the style of daemontools, runit, and perp. It provides a candidate for process 1. It also comes with a library and command line utilities that implement inter-process notification and synchronization.
Updated 26 Feb 2011
MinopsOS
| Pop | 27.68 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
MinopsOS is small operating system for PC computers. It is small enough to fit inside the boot sector of a floppy disk.
Updated 27 Dec 2010
runonce
| Pop | 27.31 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 29.63 |
runonce is an attempt to take some of the pain out of postinstalls by moving them to the first boot of the system. This reduces the amount of items you have to worry about. If the postinstall script runs on a regular system, it should run on your postinstall.
Updated 21 Nov 2010
iPXE
| Pop | 52.38 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 30.26 |
iPXE is a network boot firmware. It provides a full PXE implementation enhanced with additional features such as the ability to boot from a Web server using HTTP, and the ability to boot from a SAN using iSCSI, AoE, SRP, or FCoE. It supports a wide variety of network devices, including wireless and Infiniband networks. iPXE is an effective replacement for gPXE.
Updated 05 Mar 2013
PrRescue
| Pop | 124.66 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 18.11 |
PrRescue is a rescue CD based on Gentoo amd64/i686 supporting nilfs2 and btrfs. Its goal is to always include the newest kernel and Gentoo packages.
Updated 12 Feb 2009
loadlin
| Pop | 21.91 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Loadlin is a bootloader that starts Linux from DOS.
Updated 07 Feb 2009
Choose-OS
| Pop | 14.18 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 39.57 |
Choose-OS (chos) is a minimalistic, fast, and simple 2nd-stage boot loader for the Linux kernel that works as an alternative to LILO. It is fully configurable and supports, initrd, emergency boot, a simple boot-time menu, hot-keys, timed boot, and many other features.
Updated 06 Mar 2013
Spacewalk
| Pop | 370.16 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 18.25 |
Spacewalk is a Linux and Solaris systems management solution. It allows you to inventory your systems (hardware and software information), install and update software on your systems, collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups, provision (Kickstart) your systems, manage and deploy configuration files to your systems, monitor your systems, provision virtual guests, and start/stop/configure virtual guests.
