live-bootstrap vs libderp

live-bootstrap

Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process (by fosslinux)

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libderp

C collections. Easy to build, boring algorithms. Dumb is good. (by begriffs)

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live-bootstrap		libderp
	Project
28	Mentions	2
264	Stars	43
-	Growth	-
9.4	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Shell	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	ISC License

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live-bootstrap

Posts with mentions or reviews of live-bootstrap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.

Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2023
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023

Not using this, but tangentially related is (full disclosure, i am a maintainer of this project) live-bootstrap, which uses about a KB of binary to do a full "Linux from scratch" style thing - read https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part... for all 143 steps you have to go through to get there.
Saving Knowledge Post-Collapse
2 projects | /r/preppers | 20 Mar 2023

Actually you can skip a file system entirely if you do something like stage0 or live-bootstrap https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap
Every night
3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 6 Feb 2023

See https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap, and https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/parts.rst has all the steps we take.
Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022
what is the smallest linux system capable of building itself?
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 13 Oct 2022

live-bootstrap builds a variety of intermediate systems, starting from a <1KB binary seed (kernel excluded). Check parts.rst for a description, it's kinda wild just how many C and C subset compilers get compiled... but the end result is a system with musl and GCC 4.7, from which building the latest GCC is 2 steps away.
Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (Turing Award Lecture)
3 projects | /r/linux | 29 Sep 2022

There is also live-bootstrap which uses a similar bootstrap chain to Guix (stage0 -> Mes -> tcc -> gcc), but without needing Guile/guix-daemon binaries etc. The whole thing starts with just a 357-byte binary seed (source)!
Collapsing Internet
2 projects | /r/collapse | 1 Sep 2022
Zig is now self–hosted by default
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2022
GHC blog: Migrating from Make to Hadrian (for packagers)
1 project | /r/haskell | 5 Aug 2022

There's some cool stuff being done in this area. For example, live-bootstrap goes from a tiny, auditable binary seed to a full GNU userland using only source code (and a Linux kernel).

libderp

Posts with mentions or reviews of libderp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-16.