qingy is a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Window System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...).
qinit is a fast, small, simple replacement for init. It does NOT read rc.d, or init.d; rather it is configured similarly to dwm. Meant to be built against dietlibc.
A port of the Linux operating system kernel and assorted GNU userspace to the GameCube and Wii gaming consoles from Nintendo. Please, see http://www.gc-linux.org for additional information.
A set of tools to generate and build a customized initramfs, for simple mounting tasks, such as setting up a unionfs system. Written for a small footprint and fast execution. Compatible with both glibc and uClibc.
DongSheng Yun network laboratory network dedicated to research, development and production technology of virtual disk management system, the core product WL-iSCSI_Server is the leading virtual disk management software.
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TrustedGRUB extends the GRUB bootloader with TCG support. This makes it possible to provide a secure bootstrap architecture. The whole boot process is measured and - by support of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) - the system integrity is verifyable.
This small piece of software checks or sets BIOS settings of the Award BIOS from within a running operating system. This BIOS is commonly used by PC-Engines in their ALIX-boards, for example in the ALIX.3D3 (AMD-LX800). www.trilogik.de
InitNG strived to replace the old System V Init completelty. It offers faster startup through parallelization, service and demon monitoring, logging facilities and a dynamic run-time dependency configuration.
Linux is an excellent environment for deploying diskless thin clients. Whether you are installing a 2nd workstation at home, 50 workstations in a CyberCafe or 500 workstations in a major university or corporation, the LTSP can help you be successful.
This is a small program that reads and writes the WakeUp time in the BIOS.
This is done via /dev/nvram on recent kernels (>2.4.6, including 2.6.x) or, alternatively, via direct ISA access.
On this WakeUp time the computer is powered on automatically.
Perix is a MS-DOS compatible program, capable of running without an underlining OS. It is written in Turbo Pascal and Assembly. All parts of system are distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
CULT is an Open Source software-only network bootable thin client Operating System that provides a complete solution for thin clients, PCs or virtualized hardware.
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.
BootUtils is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel command line, mounting it and 'switchroot'ing is automated.
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
The Xbox Linux Project aims to privide a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox, so that it can be used as an ordinary computer. Linux should make use of all Xbox hardware and allow to install and run software from standard i386 Linux distributions.
Choose-OS (chos), is a modular and configurable boot loader for Linux/x86 - a program that is loaded by the BIOS before any operating systems. This program then lets you choose the operating system to boot and possibly enter parameters to it