Browse free open source Boot software and projects for Windows and Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Boot software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment
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    Downloads: 310 This Week
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    IMPORTANT NEWS: UPX has moved to GitHub https://upx.github.io ========================
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    Downloads: 89 This Week
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    XOSL is a graphical boot manager that supports multi-booting of various operating systems. Development is currently done under the XOSL2 title. Historical version download below:
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    The netboot project allows booting a diskless PC over a TCP/IP based network using standard protocols like BOOTP, DHCP and TFTP. It is able to boot Linux, FreeBSD, multiple DOS variants (including MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OpenDOS, NovellDOS, FreeDOS)
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    AiR-Boot is a x86 boot-loader that resides completely in track 0 of the harddrive. It‘s also independent of any OS, features a BIOS-like built-in setup, is localized to German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian (including Cyrillic) and Swedish.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Disaster Recovery boot environment for Linux, WinXXX, BSD, Solaris http://www.dctools.org
    Downloads: 0 This Week