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[grub] add yet another frigging patch to GRUB "2.04" 
* GRUB 2.0 maintainer think they're doing a fine job, even when there are
  CRITICAL SECURITY FIXES that should warrant an immediate out of bound
  release, and instead consider that waiting MONTHS or YEARS to release
  anything is not a big deal at all.
* Ergo, distros, such as Ubuntu, start to pick whatever security patches
  they see fit, since they can simply not RELY on the upstream project to
  produce security releases in a timely manner. One such patch is:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-03/msg00012.html
* But since there is no new GRUB release per se, they still call their GRUB
  version, onto which they applied patches that have come into existence
  more than 2 years after the actual 2.04 release, "GRUB 2.04".
* Obviously, since GRUB 2.04 + literally hundreds of cherry picked patches
  does deviate a lot from the last release, THINGS BREAK IN SPECTACULAR
  FASHION, such as the recently released Ubuntu 21.04 failing to boot with
  the error: grub_register_command_lockdown not found.
* Oh, and of course, regardless of all the above, if you ask anyone, they'll
  tell you that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the GRUB release
  process (even if they should long have released 2.05, 2.05-1 and 2.05-2,
  were their maintainer ready to acknowledge that delaying releases DOES
  CREATES MAJOR ISSUES DOWSTREAM, as many people REPEATEDLY pointed to them
  on the GRUB mailing list) or with the Ubuntu GRUB versioning process (that
  really shouldn't be calling their version of GRUB "grub-2.04" but instead
  something like "grub-2.04_ubuntu"). Oh no siree! Instead, the problem must
  all be with Rufus and its maintainer, who should either spend their lives
  pre-emptively figuring which breaking patch every other distro applied out
  there, or limit media creation to DD mode, like any "sensible" person
  would do, since DD mode is the ultimate panacea (Narrator: "It wasn't").
* So, once again, a massive thanks to all the people who have been involved
  in the current GRUB 2.0 shit show, whose DIRECT result is to make end
  users' lives miserable, while GRUB maintainers are hell bent on continuing
  to pretend that everything's just peachy and are busy patting themselves
  on the back on account that "Fedora recently dropped more than 100 of the
  custom patches they had to apply to their GRUB fork" (sic). Nothing to see
  here, it's just GRUB maintainer's Jedi business as usual. Besides, who the
  hell cares about Windows users trying to transition to Linux in a friendly
  manner anyway. I mean, as long as something doesn't affect existing Linux
  users, it isn't a REAL problem, right?...
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.gitattributes [misc] ensure 'missing' is checked out as LF 2015-11-18 00:21:56 +00:00
.gitignore [loc] remove Azerbaijani translation 2019-07-10 11:49:52 +01:00
_chver.sh [appstore] use a separate solution for App packaging 2021-02-07 20:19:53 +00:00
_coverity.cmd [misc] fix Coverity warnings 2020-06-19 10:53:40 +01:00
_detect-amend.sh [misc] fix dos_locale.c warning 2019-11-25 17:39:56 +00:00
_pre-commit.sh [appstore] don't exit on unhandled parameters 2021-02-05 17:47:48 +00:00
_release.sh [misc] move appx generation to Makefile 2017-05-09 10:54:13 +01:00
_set_git_hooks.sh [internal] update hooks to remove automated tagging 2018-10-19 14:36:48 +01:00
_sign.cmd [misc] update to Visual Studio 2019 2019-08-22 16:41:12 +01:00
aclocal.m4 [misc] update autotools support files 2021-03-25 23:57:34 +00:00
appveyor.yml [checksum] clean up hash computation 2020-06-22 18:37:10 +01:00
bootstrap.sh [misc] Linux cross compilation fixes 2016-11-11 11:58:05 +00:00
ChangeLog.txt v3.13 (build 1730) 2020-11-20 13:25:51 +00:00
compile [misc] update MinGW build chain for msys2 2014-12-15 18:42:21 +00:00
configure [misc] update autotools support files 2021-03-25 23:57:34 +00:00
configure.ac [dev] add exception for Realtek card readers 2021-01-06 19:27:31 +00:00
install-sh [internal] update app URL as well as scripts 2011-12-09 22:47:44 +00:00
LICENSE.txt [misc] refactoring and cleanup - part 2 2013-01-25 01:56:28 +00:00
Makefile.am [loc] update French translation 2021-03-31 16:38:09 +01:00
Makefile.in [loc] update French translation 2021-03-31 16:38:09 +01:00
missing [misc] update MinGW build chain for msys2 2014-12-15 18:42:21 +00:00
README.md [misc] add download counter to README 2020-10-14 17:11:09 +01:00
rufus.sln [appstore] use a separate solution for App packaging 2021-02-07 20:19:53 +00:00

README.md

Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

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Rufus logo

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.

Features

  • 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 (Windows 8.1 or earlier)
  • 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 To Go drives
  • Create persistent Linux partitions
  • Download official Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 10 retail ISOs
  • Compute MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums of the selected image
  • Twice as fast as Microsoft's USB/DVD tool or UNetbootin, on ISO → USB creation (1)
  • Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
  • Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
  • Small footprint. No installation required.
  • Portable
  • 100% Free Software (GPL v3)

Compilation

Use either Visual Studio 2019 (version 16.0 or later with SDK 10.0.18362 installed) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln or configure/make respectively.

Visual Studio

Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project. You are entitled to download and use the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license, this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user.

Additional information

Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.

Enhancements/Bugs

Please use the GitHub issue tracker for reporting problems or suggesting new features.

(1) Tests carried out with a 16 GB USB 3.0 ADATA pen drive on a Core 2 duo/4 GB RAM platform running Windows 7 x64. ISO: en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso

Name of tool Version Time
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool v1.0.30 8 mins 10s
UNetbootin v1.1.1.1 6 mins 20s
Rufus v1.1.0 3 mins 25s