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Boot projects on GitHub

USB boot tools and network boot environments for system recovery.

As of , the most-starred Boot projects on GitHub are Magisk (63.3K stars), rufus (38K stars) and os-tutorial (30.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 Boot repositories with 194.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was Xbox360PeerPressure, with +29 stars in a day.

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+96Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+29

Xbox360PeerPressure

grimdoomer/Xbox360PeerPressure · ★ 807

Peer Pressure is a persistent softmod exploit for the Xbox 360. It modifies the console's NAND image and HDD security sectors to trigger a chain of DMA attacks at startup, letting you run unsigned code and homebrew.

+23

Magisk

topjohnwu/Magisk · ★ 63.3K

Magisk is a suite of open source software for customizing Android, supporting devices higher than Android 6.0. Its four headline pieces are MagiskSU, Magisk Modules, MagiskBoot, and Zygisk.

+15

reinstall

bin456789/reinstall · ★ 13.8K

A one-click script that reinstalls a VPS's operating system over the network: about 20 common Linux distros, or Windows from official ISOs — and the machine can currently be running either Linux or Windows.

+10

rufus

pbatard/rufus · ★ 38K

Rufus is a free utility for Windows that formats and creates bootable USB flash drives, used to make installers for Windows, Linux, FreeDOS and other bootable ISOs.

The all-time top

11 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · topjohnwu/Magisk

    Magisk

    Magisk is a suite of open source software for customizing Android, supporting devices higher than Android 6.0. Its four headline pieces are MagiskSU, Magisk Modules, MagiskBoot, and Zygisk.

    63.3K
  2. #2 · pbatard/rufus

    rufus

    Rufus is a free utility for Windows that formats and creates bootable USB flash drives, used to make installers for Windows, Linux, FreeDOS and other bootable ISOs.

    38K
  3. #3 · cfenollosa/os-tutorial

    os-tutorial

    A step-by-step tutorial that walks you through building a small operating system from scratch, starting at the boot sector and moving up to a basic kernel.

    30.8K
  1. 4

    systemd

    16.8Ksystemd/systemd · C

    systemd is the system and service manager for Linux — the init system that brings the OS up at boot and supervises services while it runs.

  2. 5

    OpenCorePkg

    15.6Kacidanthera/OpenCorePkg · C

    OpenCorePkg is OpenCore, a UEFI bootloader bundled with a development SDK, best known for booting and patching macOS on non-Apple hardware, while also providing shared UEFI libraries used by other Acidanthera projects.

  3. 6

    reinstall

    13.8Kbin456789/reinstall · Shell

    A one-click script that reinstalls a VPS's operating system over the network: about 20 common Linux distros, or Windows from official ISOs — and the machine can currently be running either Linux or Windows.

  4. 7

    netboot.xyz

    12.5Knetbootxyz/netboot.xyz · Jinja

    netboot.xyz is a network-based boot menu built on iPXE: you boot a machine from a small bootloader image and pick almost any operating system or utility disk from a menu, without downloading ISOs beforehand.

  5. 8

    ReBarUEFI

    2.6KxCuri0/ReBarUEFI · C

    ReBarUEFI is a UEFI DXE driver that enables Resizable BAR on systems whose firmware doesn't support it officially — a free performance boost, mostly noticeable in games.

  6. 9

    Xbox360PeerPressure

    807grimdoomer/Xbox360PeerPressure

    Peer Pressure is a persistent softmod exploit for the Xbox 360. It modifies the console's NAND image and HDD security sectors to trigger a chain of DMA attacks at startup, letting you run unsigned code and homebrew.

  7. 10

    omarchy-lock-explorer

    208SirJul1337/omarchy-lock-explorer · QML

    Lock Screen Explorer is an Omarchy plugin that adds dozens of ready-made lock screen designs (Greeting Card, Terminal, Weather, Music, System, Rain, and more) plus a picker UI to preview, switch, and customize them, while keeping all the normal unlock methods working.

  8. 11

    is-a-software

    191is-a-software/is-a-software · JavaScript

    is-a-software lets developers claim a free custom subdomain under .is-a.software (like myproject.is-a.software) and point it at their site using custom DNS records such as A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, and NS.

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