containers VS composefs

Compare containers vs composefs and see what are their differences.

containers

Simple containers using Linux user namespaces — see also https://github.com/arachsys/ucontain (by arachsys)
Containers namespaces Linux Virtualization
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composefs

a file system for mounting container images (by containers)
Linux Containers Filesystem oci-image OCI
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178 370
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0.0 9.2
almost 2 years ago 5 days ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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containers

Posts with mentions or reviews of containers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

composefs

Posts with mentions or reviews of composefs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing containers and composefs you can also consider the following projects:

QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

squashfs-tools - tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems

maruos - Your phone is your PC.

exfat - Free exFAT file system implementation

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

fsmon - monitor filesystem on iOS / OS X / Android / FirefoxOS / Linux

criu - Checkpoint/Restore tool

bfs - A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command

amicontained - Container introspection tool. Find out what container runtime is being used as well as features available.

crun - A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

winix - A UNIX-style Operating System for the Waikato RISC Architecture Microprocessor (WRAMP)

containers vs QEMU composefs vs squashfs-tools containers vs maruos composefs vs exfat containers vs cosmopolitan composefs vs fsmon containers vs criu composefs vs bfs containers vs amicontained composefs vs crun containers vs crun composefs vs winix