booster
Fast and secure initramfs generator (by anatol)
build-meta
By carbonOS
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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.
booster
Posts with mentions or reviews of booster.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
People should stop using plain passwords to protect data and switch to something better.oster/ + Yubikey
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[Boot error] Initramfs unpacking failed after updating to 6.0.1
Change from mkinitcpio to booster. It's faster and produce smaller images.
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Dracut or Genkernel?
Neither, use booster.
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Booster initramfs release 0.9 got ZFS support
Booster is an initramfs - a type of software that runs early during the boot process and helps to setup system, e.g. perform disk unlock, load extra drivers, setup ZFS filesystem, and so on.
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You can end up without any kernel to boot if your computer crashes during a pacman update
I don't have high hopes that this will change in mkinitcpio, but perhaps you could bring it up with booster (which copied the mkinitcpio hooks and removal scripts)
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Is There Something To Improve to my arch install "Guide"?
This is my personal preference, but consider switching to booster.
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What is your current setup? Bootloader, filesystem, partitions, etc.
initramfs: booster - TPM2 support, way faster than mkinitcpio, autodiscovering root partition
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Complex Issue:
Note I'm using booster, so assuming you're using the default mkinitcpio you probably want /boot/initramfs-linux.img. Also, don't forget to modify if your ESP isn't mounted at /boot like mine.
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Systemd 250 released
Booster initramfs generator supports TPM, Yubikey and Network binding so you can easily protect your data using the strategy you want.
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Booster dont loads with efistub
GPT table detection has higher priority at booster code. But for some reason it does not identify your partition table as GPT. Filed a github bug for it https://github.com/anatol/booster/issues/119
build-meta
Posts with mentions or reviews of build-meta.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.
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Distro that supports secure boot and FDE without asking for a password twice
Tracking issue: https://gitlab.com/carbonOS/build-meta/-/issues/140
- Tukzedo: A highly-opinionated, non-democratically led Linux distro concept based on ZFS and TPM. Immutable, rolling. Intended to be secure, install-once-and-use-for-life, functionally immortal. Some ideas may enrage ~1/3 of linux fans, and hopefully also RMS if it were to rise to his attention.
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Words/Letters missing in UI
"Re-created the install media" seems to imply you're building carbonOS yourself. Make sure your git checkout is newer than this commit: https://gitlab.com/carbonOS/build-meta/-/commit/f6a8db8af00808e8bacd3334952baff10487e49f. I suggest you just build off of the gnome branch. If you're building carbonOS, please check out the carbonOS Development Matrix channel: #carbonOS-devel:matrix.org
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Systemd 250 released
I'm working on one of those new-fangled atomic distros and I've been planning on how to actually securely verify every bit of OS data that loads and simultaneously keep every bit of user data encrypted. If you're interested, here's my tracking issue where I keep plans on how to best lock everything down: https://gitlab.com/carbonOS/build-meta/-/issues/44
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Im looking for some info
The main source for the actual OS is here: https://gitlab.com/carbonOS/build-meta
What are some alternatives?
When comparing booster and build-meta you can also consider the following projects:
u-root - A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
sbctl - :computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
tang - Tang binding daemon
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
sslmgr - A layer of abstraction the around acme/autocert certificate manager (Golang)
zip - Fork of Go's archive/zip to add reading/writing of password protected zip files.
set - Package set is a small wrapper around the official reflect package that facilitates loose type conversion and assignment into native Go types.
systemd - systemd upstream
simple-arch-installer
tunl - Instantly expose local services to the internet