Top 9 mbr Open-Source Projects

Rufus

548 26,764 8.3 C

The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Project mention: Warn if (Windows ISO) media will no longer be bootable after Q1 2024 (Rufus) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-23

limine

20 1,575 9.5 C

Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader.

Project mention: It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-13

I assume this person meant to say `Limine'.
It's what I use for dualbooting Windows and Linux. It's really easy to Install, Use & Understand.
https://limine-bootloader.org/

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Super-UEFIinSecureBoot-Disk

6 658 0.0

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

Project mention: Show HN: SSH-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-29

You can edit UEFI drivers from the operating system's bootloader, and you can even flash the UEFI itself from the OS in most computers. While secure boot. Failing that, you can shim a preloader between the bootloader and the UEFI and load arbitrary drivers despite secure boot, like is done here : https://github.com/ValdikSS/Super-UEFIinSecureBoot-Disk
Any sufficiently motivated attacker can make a UEFI rootkit happen, and it's in the wild right now. TPM really do offer no protection to users, either against userspace malware, or rootkits. It's purely about DRM.

format-udf

13 493 2.7 Shell

Bash script to format a block device (hard drive or Flash drive) in UDF. The output is a drive that can be used for reading/writing across multiple operating system families: Windows, macOS, and Linux. This script should be capable of running in macOS or in Linux.

Project mention: ExFAT Driver Boasts Much Faster "Dirsync" Performance with Linux 6.9 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-21

The note about the partition table makes me wonder how he was formatting the drive. https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf specifically does some partition table related hacks to make UDF maximally compatible with different platforms.

embiggen-disk

1 471 0.0 Go

embiggden-disk live-resizes a filesystem after first live-resizing any necessary layers below it: an optional LVM LV and PV, and an MBR or GPT partition table
Aaru

4 455 9.6 C#

Aaru Data Preservation Suite
ntfstool

1 417 3.3 C++

Forensics tool for NTFS (parser, mft, bitlocker, deleted files)
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
FATtools

2 35 6.7 Python

Facilities to access (ex)FAT filesystems and disk images with Python 3
Arch-Install

1 20 7.2 Shell

Arch Install Script highly customized for my needs and usage. (by gh0stzk)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).