New Automation Software for Linux

Yaboot project is a bootloader (like lilo or grub) for PPC machines. It is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines.What's New in This...

QGRUBEditor is a system tool to view and edit the GRUB boot loader. The project offers many features and it is the perfect solution for those who want to change the way GRUB works, without messing with GRUB's configuration...

mkinitramfs is intended to create the ultimate initramfs image.mkinitramfs is designed to boot from any media (SATA, PATA, SCSI, USB, CD-ROM, etc.) without any changes being made to your disk.However, it is very simple (about 400 lines of...

grubinstall installs a GRUB boot loader on a fixed disk. It's simpler and easier to understand than the methods that come with the GRUB package.grubinstall uses a particular method of installing that is simple, easy to understand, and hard to get wrong....

Petitboot is a graphical bootloader for the PlayStation 3. It's based on the existing kboot project, plus the twin windowing system for the GUI.At present, petitboot is very much a work-in-progress, but works on our test PS3.This project is licensed under...

Autopoweroff is daemon that is started at boot time, and which function is to shutdown the computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. It is meant for the Linux operating system.The computer will shutdown if all the above conditions...

GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. GAG's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use.Here are some key features of...

LinuxBIOS project is aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start.The project was started as part of clustering research work in the Cluster Reseach Lab...

Ext2 Filesystem Utilities project (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems.Features:e2fsprogs, which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other...

LightDM GTK+ Greeter is an open source, cross-platform and free software project implemented in C around the GTK+ toolkit, and designed from the offset to act as a greeter for the open source LightDM login manager. It will blend with any desktop...