SkiffOS
Any Linux distribution, anywhere. (by skiffos)
licheepi-nano-buildroot
Config files for full Lichee Pi Nano Linux image build (by unframework)
| SkiffOS | licheepi-nano-buildroot | |
|---|---|---|
| 43 | 2 | |
| 767 | 115 | |
| 1.2% | 0.0% | |
| 9.2 | 5.9 | |
| 6 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Shell | Dockerfile | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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 2025-02-21.
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Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building Modern Embedded Linux Images
There’s also SkiffOS (https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS).
It’s a project that uses buildroot to create a small Linux for a specific device that’s only used to start a container.
I’ve wanted to try it sometime after getting headaches with both Buildroot and Yocto. Particular adding more libraries tends to break things.
- Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems
- SkiffOS: easily run any distro on Raspberry Pi: supports Gentoo, Fedora, Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian
- SkiffOS: Reliably run any Linux distribution on any hardware with a cross-compiled host OS for containerized environments.
- WSL now has built in systemd support
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Questions about the XU4Q as a backup server
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
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Odroid M1 with SkiffOS (Buildroot) cross-compiled OS w/ Gentoo, Alpine, Debian, and more
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
- How is Aarm64 support? I was considering building my own setup based on gentoo in a vm on my m1 MacBook air.
licheepi-nano-buildroot
Posts with mentions or reviews of licheepi-nano-buildroot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-26.
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Lichee Pi 4A
I also want to mention the Lichee Pi Nano, though it is much smaller and targeting a different use case: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-.... Made an embedded distro Buildroot config for that one some time ago (https://github.com/unframework/licheepi-nano-buildroot).
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Allwinner F1C200s
If this is indeed relevant, I also ported the Lichee Pi Nano vendor's kernel fork to newer Linux version as well (see links in the readme for https://github.com/unframework/licheepi-nano-buildroot).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SkiffOS and licheepi-nano-buildroot you can also consider the following projects:
FunKey-OS - Buildroot-based embedded Linux OS for the FunKey S retro-gaming console
skiffos - SkiffOS: lightweight & robust cross-compiled Linux distribution optimized for hosting containers. [Moved to: https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS]
pve-edge-kernel - Newer Linux kernels for Proxmox VE 7
pineroot - Buildroot environment for Pinephone with QT.
VidOS - Complete single purpose linux system that just plays videos