Lufus

Lufus

Beta Release Disclaimer

Lufus is currently in Beta.

Lufus is a physical drive imaging and formatting utility written in Python, inspired by Rufus on Windows, with the goal of delivering a greater experience for Linux users. While core functionality has been implemented, the project is still under active development. Users should expect bugs, incomplete features, and ongoing structural changes.

Aim

Lufus aims to:

• Simplify bootable media creation for Linux users (new and old alike)
• Provide a clean, minimal, and accessible interface for users
• Become an all in one hub for everything-flashing on Linux and provide features not offered yet by its counterparts
• Allow users freedom and control over their Windows installs (in works)
• and much more

Running Lufus

Currently, running the project can be done by installing briefcase in a venv with

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install briefcase

Clone the project, and run the following in the root directory of the project: briefcase dev -r

Documentation

Lufus uses MkDocs for its documentation. To build the docs locally, simply pip install mkdocs in the venv and run mkdocs build, or mkdocs serve to run a dev server.

Read the documentation here (WIP)

Contributing

Contribution Guidelines

1. All PR must be made against the dev branch by default. Any exceptions must be properly stated
2. Provide an example of your feature or screenshots of changes to the GUI wherever applicable
3. Any use of AI must be clearly stated on the PR
4. PR must be properly made with the format, issues and labels
5. Do not create multiple PRs or duplicate PRs at once
6. Follow proper PEP8 naming scheme (experimental)
7. Any known limitations must be clearly stated in the PR

For Package maintainers

Any release with a tag containing “alpha”/“x-a-x”/“testing” or a pre-release should not be packaged. Only the “beta”/“x-b-x”/“stable” release, not marked as prerelease, should be packaged.

Your PR may be rejected by the maintainers for any of the reasons without prior notice. Please ping other maintainers if you think a mistake has been made. Guidelines are a subject to change.

Feedback, testing, translations, and other contributions are appreciated. Please join our Discord server to get quick support on contributing and debugging. This is an open-source project maintained by volunteers and hobbyists. Response times for issues and pull requests may vary.