Issue Ventoy 1.0.79, tools for downloading arbitrary systems from USB carriers

published Issues of tools Ventoy 1.0.79 designed to create loading USB carriers, including several operating systems. The program is noteworthy in that it provides the ability to load the OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD and EFI-image, without requiring the image of the image or reformatting of the media. For example, it is enough just to copy on the USB Flash with Ventoy loader interested in the set of ISO-images and Ventoy will provide the ability to load the operating systems inside. At any time, you can replace or add new ISO-images by just copying new files, which is convenient for testing and preliminary familiarization with various distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in the language of SI and spreads under the license gplv3.

Ventoy supports loading on systems with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, X86_64 UEFI , ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot and MIPS64el UEFI with MBR or GPT sections tables. The loading of various options for Windows, Winpe, Linux, BSD, Chromeos, as well as virtual VMware and Xen virtual machines is supported. The developers have tested work with Ventoy of more than 940 ISO-images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux-displacements (stated about the check of 90% of the distributions presented at DistRouwatch.com), more than a dozen BSD systems (Freebsd, Draggonfly BSD, Draggl BSD, Draggl BSD pfsense, freeenas, etc.).

In addition to USB carriers, the Ventoy bootloader can be installed on a local disk, SSD, NVME, SD cards and other types of drives that use Fat32, Exfat, NTFS, UDF, XFS or EXT2/3/4. There is a mode of automated installation of the operating system in one file on a tolerable medium with the ability to add your files to the created environment (for example, to create images with Windows or Linux-displacements that do not support Live mode).

The new version added support for the Fedora Coreos distribution.
The bootable image of the Super-UEFIINSECUREBOOT-DISK used to launch unscrewed EFI programs and operating systems in UEFI Secure Boot mode is returned to the version 3.3 . The number of supported ISO images has been brought to 940. Kickstart problems are solved in distributions based on Rhel.

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