| Limine | |
|---|---|
 Example Limine boot menu | |
| Developer(s) | Mintsuki and contributors |
| Stable release | 10.0.0 / September 15, 2025 [1] |
| Repository | codeberg |
| Written in | C, assembly languages |
| Platform | ARM, RISC-V, loongArch, x86 [2] [3] |
| Type | Bootloader |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Website | limine-bootloader |
Limine is a portable boot loader and the reference implementation for the Limine boot protocol. [4] [5] Multiboot2, chainloading, and the Linux boot protocols are also supported. Limine supports the ISO-9660 and FAT filesystems. [6] [7]
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Limine aims to provide a more robust alternative to bootloaders like GNU GRUB, [8] as well as its own boot protocol as an alternative to the Multiboot specification, with the goal of reducing the amount of work needed for a kernel developer to get a workable 64-bit environment once booted. [4]
Limine is packaged by several Linux distributions, being offered by Arch Linux, where it is an option in archinstall, [9] [10] as well as included in EasyOS [11] (a derivative of Puppy Linux [12] ), CachyOS, [13] and Chimera Linux. [14] Limine is also used by Cosmos [15] and supported by SerenityOS. [16]
