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.
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.
facter
Posts with mentions or reviews of facter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-25.
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How to report bugs or view existing tickets of Puppet software nowadays?
I'm just wondering whether I'm the only one who's wondering how to access Puppet's ticket system nowadays? On the one hand I was stumbling over a bug in Facter last week which luckily has been fixed in the meantime because obviously someone else spotted it as well.
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Homelab Fetch: A fetch script for your homelab
or using community package: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/facter_module.html which uses this: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
The latest major version of Facter—Puppet's tool for collecting system information—has been out for some time now. However, we've been hard at work fixing bugs ever since. The fact that Facter has to be able to run on a variety of operating systems and architectures makes maintenance quite a challenging ordeal.
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Possible to report CPU serial numbers via Zabbix?
Look into the facter package: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
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AlmaLinux and Foreman + Katello
Facter 3.x (part of Puppet 6.x): up to now, AlmaLinux is incorrectly detected as RedHat operating system (fact os.name). I also submitted a patch here which got merged. But so far there hasn't been a new release of Facter 3.x yet. So anybody not building Facter from source has to wait for Facter 3.15.17. Facter 4 (part of Puppet 7.x) seems to work correctly and it wasn't affected by this issue, as it is a complete rewrite with a different resolver logic.
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Ipmitool Unable to establish IPMI v2 on idrac6 Dell r610
Check the getting started section: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter#getting-started
osinfo-db
Posts with mentions or reviews of osinfo-db.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-27.
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Question about "download OS" in Gnome Boxes
So, if you want to see where Gnome Boxes loads the systems from, you can check the database in this repository.
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Some questions about Gnome Boxes
Like already mentioned, Gnome Boxes derives its list of known OS from a library called osinfo. You can check the osinfo data for all catalogued systems, which Gnome Boxes also uses as reference for their recommended downloads.
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What will I be missing if I use silverblue?
All I'm missing is great IDE support because most don't support flatpak well, but it's still usable. No idea what you need for data science as I don't do it, but everything else you mentioned works great (except for Windows 11 VMs because the libosinfo merge request that is required hasn't been merged yet (link), so GNOME Boxes doesn't create a VM with UEFI support. Win10 works though)
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AlmaLinux and Foreman + Katello
libosinfo (used by libvirt/KVM for example): a fix has been added by Andrew Lukoshko, see https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/merge_requests/285 which basically boils down the the file /usr/share/osinfo/os/almalinux.org/almalinux-8.xml provided by the RPM osinfo-db (of AlmaLinux 8.3). If this meta information is missing in your KVM hypervisor (for example if you install an AlamLinux VM on a CentOS hypervisor just now) and you did not specify --os-variant rhel8.3 for example when using virt-install when installing an AlmaLinux VM, you might miss certain optimization because only very generic virtualization settings get applied in case of an undetected operating system.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing facter and osinfo-db you can also consider the following projects:
facterdb - A Database of OS facts provided by Facter
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
rspec-puppet - RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests
nordvpn-client - Unofficial NordVPN client - an excuse to practice Common Lisp and a way to manage my VPN on Fedora Silverblue
kmo-501-nginx - A mock nginx module for training
puppet-nginx - Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes
homelab-fetch