Limine (bootloader)

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Limine
Developer(s) Mintsuki and contributors
Stable release
9.6.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 16 August 2025
Repository codeberg.org/Limine/Limine
Written in C, assembly languages
Platform ARM, RISC-V, loongArch, x86 [2] [3]
Type Bootloader
License BSD-2-Clause
Website limine-bootloader.org

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]

See also

References

  1. "Release 9.6.1". 16 August 2025. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
  2. Larabel, Michael (2024-08-03). "Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  3. Schürrmann, Tim (2024-08-06). "Alternativer Bootloader Limine 8.0.1 unterstützt LoongArch64-Systeme". Linux-Magazin . Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  4. 1 2 "Limine". limine-bootloader.org. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  5. Holwerda, Thom (2024-08-04). "Limine: a modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager". OSNews . Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  6. Larabel, Michael (2025-02-17). "Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  7. Schürrmann, Tim (2025-02-17). "Bootloader Limine 9.0.0 entfernt Unterstützung für Ext-Dateisysteme". Linux-Magazin . Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  8. Larabel, Michael (2024-01-14). "Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released". Phoronix . Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  9. Larabel, Michael (2023-07-31). "Archinstall 2.6 Released For Latest Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer". Phoronix . Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  10. Nestor, Marius (2023-07-30). "Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Hyperland WM, Limine Bootloader". 9to5Linux. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  11. darkcrizt (2022-11-15). "EasyOS 4.5 "Dunfell" arrives with a large number of fixes and new sfs". Ubunlog. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  12. Rudra, Sourav (2023-08-02). "EasyOS: An Experimental Distro With Unique Qualities". It's FOSS News. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
  13. Larabel, Michael (2025-03-30). "CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025-04-25.
  14. Borisov, Bobby (2025-04-21). "Chimera Linux Introduces Key Bootloader Changes". Linuxiac. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
  15. "IL2CPU". cosmos.github.io. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  16. "SerenityOS Changelog for Monday, February 14, 2022". changelog.serenityos.org. Retrieved 2023-08-29.

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