darch vs astOS

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darch		astOS
	Project
4	Mentions	6
832	Stars	202
0.0%	Growth	-
3.2	Activity	3.6
6 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Go	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

darch

Posts with mentions or reviews of darch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-15.

Darch
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2022
astOS: An immutable Arch based GNU+Linux distribution utilizing BTRFS snapshots
6 projects | /r/linux | 15 Aug 2022

This reminds me of a tool I wrote (and still use to this day), Darch
Ask HN: Linux distro based on Docker images?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2021
What Distro would you use if you had to switch from Void linux?
2 projects | /r/voidlinux | 26 Jul 2021

Here's some backstory: https://github.com/godarch/darch/issues/54

astOS

Posts with mentions or reviews of astOS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-27.

There is an immutable arch linux distro out there
1 project | /r/archlinux | 24 Jan 2023
SteamOS official desktop release inches closer.
4 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 27 Oct 2022
In what situation should I reinstall Archlinux?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 22 Sep 2022

Never used it, but there is this: https://github.com/CuBeRJAN/astOS
astOS: An immutable Arch based GNU+Linux distribution utilizing BTRFS snapshots
6 projects | /r/linux | 15 Aug 2022
astOS: An immutable Arch-based GNU+Linux distribution utilizing BTRFS snapshots
1 project | /r/archlinux | 15 Aug 2022
AstOS is an immutable Arch based distribution utilizing btrfs snapshots
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing darch and astOS you can also consider the following projects:

os - Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers

astos - An immutable tree-shaped meta-distribution [Moved to: https://github.com/ashos/ashos]

zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

OpenRGB

NFF-Go - NFF-Go -Network Function Framework for GO (former YANFF)

cleanroom - Immutable and stateless clean-room Linux installations

erda - An enterprise-grade Cloud-Native application platform for Kubernetes.

opensd

grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

steamos-teardown - Random notes and ramblings about SteamOS

distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox