Etherboot

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Analyzed about 1 month ago. based on code collected almost 7 years ago.

Project Summary

Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone machines over a network using Internet protocols, namely DHCP and tftp.

Etherboot has not been actively maintained for several years. Users should upgrade to iPXE.

In a Nutshell, Etherboot...

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has had 1,590 commits made by 25 contributors
representing 367,183 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 98 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 1998
ending with its most recent commit over 14 years ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

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Few reported vulnerabilities

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