barco VS polar

barco is a project I worked on to learn more about Linux containers and the Linux kernel. It's a simple implementation of a container runtime in C, which I wrote from scratch (based on other guides on the Internet) using just C, libseccomp for seccomp filters, libcap for container capabilities, libcuni1 for unit tests with CUnit, argtable for handling the CLI and another third-party library for logging. It's not meant to be used in production, but rather as a learning tool.

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Hey HN,

Birk from Polar here. We're building a platform for open source developers offering better funding & community tools. We're building it open source too: https://github.com/polarsource/polar

Here to answer any questions you might have. You can read more about this on our own Polar page for Polar:

That would make sense, I think some companies are trying to solve this, like https://polar.sh/.

Great article! I started https://polar.sh to help maintainers get more funding + insights about their customers & their needs. Long-term building tooling for managing all up sold services and customer management.

I definitely agree that 1) we need to convert companies more, but 2) it won’t happen with the traditional sponsorship/donations model. They need to be able to quantify the value of their investments.

With the first version of Polar, we aim to provide that while giving maintainers better insight on needs & funding to develop efforts that align with their vision.