limine VS limine-c-template

Compare limine vs limine-c-template and see what are their differences.

limine

Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader. (by limine-bootloader)

limine-c-template

A simple template for building a Limine-compliant kernel in C. (by limine-bootloader)
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limine limine-c-template
20 3
1,584 109
6.5% 7.3%
9.5 7.1
10 days ago 2 months ago
C Makefile
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License BSD Zero Clause License
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limine

Posts with mentions or reviews of limine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.

limine-c-template

Posts with mentions or reviews of limine-c-template. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing limine and limine-c-template you can also consider the following projects:

uefiseven - An EFI loader that emulates int10h interrupts needed for booting Windows 7 under UEFI Class 3 systems.

los-rs-bootloader

Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

toaruos - A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.

uefi-elf-bootloader - UEFI ELF Bootloader example

android_bootable_bootloader_edk2 - Android Boot Loader (abl) for SHIFTPHONES

edk2 - EDK II

x86_64 - Library to program x86_64 hardware.

bread - 🍞 BREAD: BIOS Reverse Engineering & Advanced Debugger

2n - 2048 clone for the console, written in C

ccan - The C Code Archive Network

Super-UEFIinSecureBoot-Disk - Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk: Boot any OS or .efi file without disabling UEFI Secure Boot