Limine-Bootloader/Limine

Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager. (Official mirror of https://codeberg.org/Limine/Limine)

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Limine is a bootloader and boot manager that helps operating system developers reliably start up their custom operating systems on various hardware platforms. It takes your compiled operating system kernel and associated boot files, and outputs a system ready to load your OS. This tool is designed for operating system developers, embedded system engineers, and low-level firmware developers.

2,869 stars. Actively maintained with 134 commits in the last 30 days.

Use this if you are developing a new operating system or a specialized embedded system and need a flexible, modern, and portable way to boot your kernel on different computer architectures.

Not ideal if you are looking to install or manage an existing, commercially available operating system like Windows, macOS, or a standard Linux distribution.

operating-system-development bootloader-engineering firmware-development embedded-systems system-startup
No Package No Dependents
Maintenance 22 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 18 / 25

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2,869

Forks

182

Language

C

License

BSD-2-Clause

Last pushed

Mar 12, 2026

Commits (30d)

134

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