SkiffOS vs KTweak

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SkiffOS		KTweak
	Project
42	Mentions	3
664	Stars	359
1.5%	Growth	-
9.4	Activity	0.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Shell	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SkiffOS

Posts with mentions or reviews of SkiffOS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
SkiffOS: easily run any distro on Raspberry Pi: supports Gentoo, Fedora, Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian
1 project | /r/raspberry_pi | 18 Oct 2022
SkiffOS: Reliably run any Linux distribution on any hardware with a cross-compiled host OS for containerized environments.
1 project | /r/ApertureRobotics | 18 Oct 2022
WSL now has built in systemd support
1 project | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 21 Sep 2022
Questions about the XU4Q as a backup server
1 project | /r/ODroid | 4 Aug 2022

SkiffOS supports the XU4Q and will continue to probably forever. https://github.com/SkiffOS/skiffos
SkiffOS Linux now supports BeagleV/VisionFive and Allwinner D1 risc-v SBCs
1 project | /r/RISCV | 27 Jun 2022
Odroid M1 with SkiffOS (Buildroot) cross-compiled OS w/ Gentoo, Alpine, Debian, and more
1 project | /r/ODroid | 19 May 2022

SkiffOS adds a configuration layering system to the Buildroot cross-compiler, which makes it easy to re-target applications to new hardware. Layers are merged together as specified in the SKIFF_CONFIG comma-separated environment variable.
SkiffOS / Buildroot now support the Lichee RV Dock and Nezha Risc-V Boards
2 projects | /r/RISCV | 16 May 2022
How is Aarm64 support? I was considering building my own setup based on gentoo in a vm on my m1 MacBook air.
4 projects | /r/Gentoo | 8 May 2022
RISC-V Archlinux D1 LicheeRV image builder
2 projects | /r/RISCV | 8 May 2022

Add to the list Buildroot and https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos/ !

KTweak

Posts with mentions or reviews of KTweak. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-19.

[Discussion] What are some underrated magisk modules?
3 projects | /r/Magisk | 19 Jul 2022

KTweak (kernel tweaker) by tytydraco https://github.com/tytydraco/KTweak
Anything new?
1 project | /r/retroid | 13 Sep 2021

You need a rooted RP2 in order to be able to run KTweaks, the latter is an app which runs a ~200 line kernel-optimizing script at boot. Here's a bit more info on the script itself: https://github.com/tytydraco/ktweak/
Tasker HTTP Request in Background
1 project | /r/tasker | 1 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SkiffOS and KTweak you can also consider the following projects:

FunKey-OS - Buildroot-based embedded Linux OS for the FunKey S retro-gaming console

ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh - Bash script for Ubuntu (and derivatives) to easily (un)install kernels from the Ubuntu Kernel PPA

licheepi-nano-buildroot - Config files for full Lichee Pi Nano Linux image build

Pi-Hole-on-Google-Compute-Engine-Free-Tier-with-Full-Tunnel-and-Split-Tunnel-Wireguard-VPN-Configs - Run your own privacy-first ad blocking service at home, or in the cloud for free with Google Cloud Services.

pineroot - Buildroot environment for Pinephone with QT.

mbp-fedora

linuxdeploy-cli - Linux Deploy CLI

spectre-meltdown-checker - Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD

openwrt-tailscale-enabler - Brings Tailscale to low powered OpenWRT devices

Google_Product_Sans_Font - Systemless Google Product Sans Font for Android 12. A Magisk Module.

pve-edge-kernel - Newer Linux kernels for Proxmox VE 7

LxRunOffline - A full-featured utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)