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The developer of Rufus, Pete Batard, has stated explicitly that Rufus is a Windows-only application. It is coded in C/C++ and relies heavily on Windows-specific APIs for drive handling.

Provide Linux users with a utility to create bootable USB drives from ISO, IMG, DD, and other disk image formats — supporting BIOS, UEFI, and hybrid boot modes.

Would you like a , a screenshot-like UI description , or a developer implementation plan for this tool?

: A unique tool that allows you to simply "drag and drop" ISO files onto a USB drive. You can store multiple ISOs on one drive and choose which one to boot from a menu.

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The developer of Rufus, Pete Batard, has stated explicitly that Rufus is a Windows-only application. It is coded in C/C++ and relies heavily on Windows-specific APIs for drive handling.

Provide Linux users with a utility to create bootable USB drives from ISO, IMG, DD, and other disk image formats — supporting BIOS, UEFI, and hybrid boot modes. rufus for linux download

Would you like a , a screenshot-like UI description , or a developer implementation plan for this tool? The developer of Rufus, Pete Batard, has stated

: A unique tool that allows you to simply "drag and drop" ISO files onto a USB drive. You can store multiple ISOs on one drive and choose which one to boot from a menu. The developer of Rufus

Running the Windows Phone Emulator in VMware Fusion

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If you run Windows 8 on your Mac with VMware Fusion 5.0 , you might get the following error message when starting the Windows Phone emulator for the first time: The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create the virtual machine.
Xamarin platform setup gotchas

Xamarin platform setup gotchas

Pascal Arnould

Yesterday I attended the "C# and Mvvm - Developing apps for all of Android, iPhone and Windows" event hosted by Stuart Lodge at Modern Jago. In preparation for the day I had the daunting task of setting up my Mac for cross platform development with Xamarin. While most of it was fairly straight forward and well documented, I came across a few gotchas worth blogging about.

Pascal Arnould

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Pascal Arnould

He has over 20 years experience of implementing complex technology solutions across a number of sectors, and is a passionate advocate of Agile practices, continuous learning and engineering excellence.

Pascal worked at endjin from 2013 - 2015.

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