Article 6PQGZ Limine: a modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager

Limine: a modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager

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Thom Holwerda
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Limine is an advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader that supports Linux, multiboot1 and 2, the native Limine boot protocol, and more.

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Limine is lightweight, elegant, fast, and the reference implementation of the Limine boot protocol.

The Limine boot protocol's main target audience is operating system and kernel developers that want to use a boot protocol which supports modern features in an elegant manner, that GRUB's aging multiboot protocols do not (or do not properly).

Limine website

I wish trying out different bootloaders was an easier thing to do. Personally, since my systems only run Fedora Linux, I'd love to just move them all over to systemd-boot and not deal with GRUB at all anymore, but since it's not supported by Fedora I'm worried updates might break the boot process at some point. On systems where only one operating system is installed, as a user I should really be given the choice to opt for the simplest, most basic boot sequence, even if it can't boot any other operating systems or if it's more limited than GRUB.

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