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petitboot vs XTIDE Universal BIOS

A side-by-side look at petitboot and XTIDE Universal BIOS. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

petitboot

petitboot

Os & Utilities

Petitboot is an open-source network bootloader and discovery tool for PowerPC systems. It supports netbooting over HTTP, FTP and TFTP and can chainload GRUB2, Das U-Boot and more. Useful for network booting PowerPC servers, embedded systems and appliances.

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XTIDE Universal BIOS

XTIDE Universal BIOS

System & Hardware

XTIDE Universal BIOS is an open-source BIOS extension that adds IDE/ATA hard drive support to computers that lack native IDE support. It allows using high-capacity IDE hard drives with older systems.

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