rEFInd
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rEFInd is a fork of the
rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it.
I decided to fork the earlier rEFIt project because, although rEFIt is a useful program, it's got several important limitations, such as poor control over the boot loader detection process and an ability to display at most a handful of boot loader entries on its main screen. rEFIt's author, Christoph Pfisterer, didn't respond to my e-mails, and the latest official version of rEFIt, 0.14, was released in March of 2010. Thus, it appears that rEFIt has been abandoned. Forking the project to give rEFIt new features seemed like the thing to do.

I decided to fork the earlier rEFIt project because, although rEFIt is a useful program, it's got several important limitations, such as poor control over the boot loader detection process and an ability to display at most a handful of boot loader entries on its main screen. rEFIt's author, Christoph Pfisterer, didn't respond to my e-mails, and the latest official version of rEFIt, 0.14, was released in March of 2010. Thus, it appears that rEFIt has been abandoned. Forking the project to give rEFIt new features seemed like the thing to do.
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rEFInd
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about rEFInd, and it has gotten 17 likes
- Developed by Roderick W. Smith
- Open Source and Free product.
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rEFInd
Summary and Relevance
Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about rEFInd, and it has gotten 17 likes
- Developed by Roderick W. Smith
- Open Source and Free product.
- 9 alternatives listed
Popular alternatives
View allrEFInd was added to AlternativeTo by dialogues on Jun 17, 2012 and this page was last updated Aug 14, 2018.
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shigorin liked rEFInd
5 months ago
I've tried a bunch of different bootloaders and this was one the easiest ones to work with and people have made some really nice themes for them
Not an install for windows