booster vs zip

booster

Fast and secure initramfs generator (by anatol)

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zip

Fork of Go's archive/zip to add reading/writing of password protected zip files. (by yeka)

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booster		zip
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27	Mentions	1
452	Stars	153
-	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	0.0
27 days ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
2 projects | /r/linux | 18 Apr 2023

People should stop using plain passwords to protect data and switch to something better.oster/ + Yubikey
[Boot error] Initramfs unpacking failed after updating to 6.0.1
1 project | /r/archlinux | 17 Oct 2022

Change from mkinitcpio to booster. It's faster and produce smaller images.
Dracut or Genkernel?
1 project | /r/Gentoo | 6 Oct 2022

Neither, use booster.
Booster initramfs release 0.9 got ZFS support
1 project | /r/zfs | 24 Aug 2022

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.
You can end up without any kernel to boot if your computer crashes during a pacman update
1 project | /r/archlinux | 13 Jun 2022

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)
Is There Something To Improve to my arch install "Guide"?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 21 May 2022

This is my personal preference, but consider switching to booster.
What is your current setup? Bootloader, filesystem, partitions, etc.
4 projects | /r/archlinux | 2 Apr 2022

initramfs: booster - TPM2 support, way faster than mkinitcpio, autodiscovering root partition
Complex Issue:
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 28 Mar 2022

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.
Systemd 250 released
9 projects | /r/linux | 23 Dec 2021

Booster initramfs generator supports TPM, Yubikey and Network binding so you can easily protect your data using the strategy you want.
Booster dont loads with efistub
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 12 Dec 2021

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

zip

Posts with mentions or reviews of zip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-22.

Can you recommend open source projects with small codebase, but with high benefits for learning?
10 projects | /r/golang | 22 Feb 2021

github.com/yeka/zip

What are some alternatives?

When comparing booster and zip 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.

wireguard-go - Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go

tang - Tang binding daemon

tunl - Instantly expose local services to the internet

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)

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

Aero - :bullettrain_side: High-performance web server for Go (2016). New alpha (2024) with even better performance is currently in development at https://git.akyoto.dev/go/web (not production ready yet)