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Limine

Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.

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Boot your computer using a modern and secure program that manages the startup process.

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Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.

Limine has 3.5k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 209 times. Limine is written mainly in C. It has been in active development since 2019. Limine is available under the BSD-2-Clause license. Its main topics are aarch64, arm, arm64, bios.

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What is Limine?

Modern, secure, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.

Is Limine open source?

Limine is an open-source project. It is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Is Limine free?

Yes. Limine is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does Limine use?

Limine is available under the BSD-2-Clause license.

What language is Limine written in?

Limine is written mainly in C.

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