WoeUSB VS KiWI

Compare WoeUSB vs KiWI and see what are their differences.

WoeUSB

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux (by WoeUSB)

KiWI

Killer Windows Installer - An alternative to WDS (by jakogut)
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WoeUSB KiWI
46 1
1,965 24
2.7% -
0.0 10.0
7 months ago about 8 years ago
Shell Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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WoeUSB

Posts with mentions or reviews of WoeUSB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-16.

KiWI

Posts with mentions or reviews of KiWI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-21.
  • Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023
    This reminds me of a tool I built a number of years ago to do unattended installs of Windows over PXE, for an IT services company I worked for at the time. It completed much faster than using DVDs or thumb drives, and could serve many machines at once.

    https://github.com/jakogut/kiwi

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WoeUSB and KiWI you can also consider the following projects:

WoeUSB-ng - WoeUSB-ng is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. This is a rewrite of original WoeUSB.

Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.

MediaCreationTool.bat - Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2!

windows2usb - Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux (MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS)

uefi-ntfs - UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS or exFAT partitions from UEFI

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

bento - Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms

cross - “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates

WoeUSB - WoeUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. It is a fork of Congelli501's WinUSB.

bootiso - A bash program to securely create a bootable USB device from one image file.

trust - Travis CI and AppVeyor template to test your Rust crate on 5 architectures and publish binary releases of it for Linux, macOS and Windows

rdoc - A command-line tool for launching documents using your favorite PDF viewer, written in bash.