Top 7 bootable-usb Open-Source Projects

Ventoy

392 58,144 6.9 C

A new bootable USB solution.

Project mention: Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers | dev.to | 2024-03-27

Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Using Ventoy, we can create live USB for multiple distros in one flash disk. This is a revolutionary feature compared to other tools, e.g., Etcher, Rufus, etc, that can only create one live USB at a time. This tool is so important. Don't call yourself a distro hopper if you don't know this tool.

WoeUSB

46 1,984 0.0 Shell

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

Project mention: How to Boot ISO Files from GRUB2 Boot Loader | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-16

Windows uses some weird install process where it needs two partitions for the install media. Basically the whole installation is too big for FAT32 so IIRC the way to have it work is to split the ISO in two having the bootable part on one partition and a lot of the installation content on another.
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

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WoeUSB-ng

54 1,434 0.0 Python

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.

Project mention: Why ISO was retired (2021) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-03

WoeUSB-ng worked last time I needed a Windows install USB: https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng

multibootusb

2 1,356 0.0 Python

Create multiboot live Linux on a USB disk...
bootiso

5 792 0.0 Shell

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

LinuxWin2USB

1 13 6.5 Python

a tool that creates a bootable Windows 11 USB using a pure terminal
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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).

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