Format USB drives and create bootable drives for various operating systems.
From the README
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
- Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS or MS-DOS
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
- Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
- Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
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rufus has 36.9k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3.1k times. rufus is written mainly in C. It has been in active development since 2011. rufus is available under the GPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are bios, boot, bootable-drives, freedos.
What is rufus?
The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Is rufus open source?
rufus is an open-source project. It is released under the GPL-3.0 license.
Is rufus free?
Yes. rufus is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its GPL-3.0 license is copyleft: if you distribute a modified version, it must remain under the same license.
What license does rufus use?
rufus is available under the GPL-3.0 license.
What language is rufus written in?
rufus is written mainly in C.
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