arch-lwc vs bottlerocket

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🚛 Create & run lightweight Arch Linux containers (by b0o)

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An operating system designed for hosting containers (by bottlerocket-os)

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arch-lwc		bottlerocket
	Project
2	Mentions	41
10	Stars	8,222
-	Growth	1.8%
0.0	Activity	9.8
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Shell	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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arch-lwc

Posts with mentions or reviews of arch-lwc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-09.

Bugs in Hello World
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2022
Migrating from Docker to Podman
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2021

I wrote a little tool to make creating and interacting with systemd-nspawn containers easier (on arch Linux only right now):
https://github.com/b0o/arch-lwc
Not intended for any sort of production. I personally use it to run Firefox inside a container and for testing.

bottlerocket

Posts with mentions or reviews of bottlerocket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

Exploring cgroups v2 and MemoryQoS With EKS and Bottlerocket
7 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2024

According to this discussion - starting with Bottlerocket 1.13.0 (Mar 2023) new distributions will default to using Cgroups v2 interface for process organization and enforcing resource limits.
Boletín AWS Open Source, Christmas Edition
9 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2023
Bottlerocket OS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

Well, the link I provided references the Bottlerocket docs which explains the control container and the admin container and also how you can configure Bottlerocket via the User Data field when launching it as an AMI. All the information appears to be in the docs
https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2023

On the server-side, there's Bottlerocket OS [1] (Amazon). They use A/B partitions for upgrades, and the idea is that you just run containers for anything non-base. Boot containers are used to do custom configuration at boot, and host-container (or DaemonSet, if you run K8S) is used for long-running services.
[1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
RedHat try to kill Centos, Rocky, Alma, Oracle Linux
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 27 Jun 2023

Bottlerocket OS.
Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023

To add to the other excellent answers, I would recommend adding Bottlerocket to your reading list: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme
I'm also aware of (but haven't used) https://github.com/siderolabs/talos#readme
I just realized your question may have implied a desktop os, whereas Bottlerocket, Flatcar, and likely the others in this specific thread are server-side. I don't have much experience with trying to solve that problem on the desktop except for the horror-show that is snap
Compile Linux Kernel 6.x on AL2? 😎
2 projects | /r/aws | 5 Jun 2023

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/2855 soon for bottlerocket, maybe you’ll see Amazon Linux 2023 for eks nodes soon too?
Twitter open sources Navi: High-Performance Machine Learning Serving Server in Rust
5 projects | /r/rust | 31 Mar 2023

I think open sourcing for free labor is a common misconception. Most corporate led open source projects (eg, https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket from AWS or https://github.com/facebook/relay from Facebook) still require a team of employees.
OS choices for cluster
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Mar 2023

Bottlerocket might be worth a look. https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

What are some alternatives?

When comparing arch-lwc and bottlerocket you can also consider the following projects:

Podman Desktop - Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

podman-desktop - launch and setup vms for podman

Flatcar - Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

amazon-ecs-agent - Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent

urlscan - Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview)

flatcar-linux-update-operator - A Kubernetes operator to manage updates of Flatcar Container Linux