mkosi
💽 Build Bespoke OS Images (by systemd)
efiboots
Manage EFI boot loader entries with this simple GUI (by Elinvention)
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| mkosi | efiboots | |
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| 16 | 10 | |
| 1,039 | 133 | |
| 3.5% | - | |
| 9.9 | 5.2 | |
| 2 days ago | 10 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
mkosi
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkosi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.
- Build Initramfs Rootless
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Building minimal GNU/Linux operating system images using Systemd Mkosi
I work with a free and open-source software community called Fedora Project. I had the opportunity to moderate the talk of one of the maintainers of the Systemd suite during the annual contributor conference, Flock To Fedora 2023 where he talked about a tool named Mkosi.
- Mkosi: Build Bespoke OS Images
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Seamlessly run other Linux distributions inside your terminal
For testing i prefer systemd-nspawn containers with mkosi. A neat tool for running your other fav. distro in a terminal. Works like a charm and integrates nicely in your system. Eg. logs and systemd services or CI testing.
- https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
- man:systemd-nspawn(1)
- man:machinectl(1)
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Bootable Live USB (Debian)
you're gonna have to build this on an x86 pc. sudo dnf install arch-install-scripts bubblewrap gdisk qemu-user-static rsync systemd-container python3 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/systemd/mkosi.git git clone https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-usb.git cd asahi-fedora-usb
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LAPAS: The story of how I made a distribution for LanPartyServers
There's also mkosi: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi. This one outputs an iso or similar image file and supports many base distributions.
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systemd /boot/loader/entries/[entry].conf title default
[1] https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/issues/376
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Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
System's mkosi is worth checking out too: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi I don't think it generates docker/OCI images directly, but it definitely can generate a tarball of the final image contents and then crane of a similar tool could package it up into an appropriate image. For just docker usage it's probably overkill, the main advantage would be it can build other image types like adding a kernel and init to be a fully bootable iso of VM image.
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Rocket.Chat🚀+ Constellation💫 = most secure chat server ever (?!)
Constellation ensures that all K8s nodes run on AMD-based Confidential VMs (CVMs). CVMs are strongly isolated from the host and remain encrypted in memory at runtime. Constellation also ensures that all nodes run the same minimal mkosi-based node image.
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AtomsDevs/Atoms - Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers
At first glance I thought your project is a frontend for mkosi but then I saw that you support non-systemd targets too. Mentioning it here because it may be relevant to other users/developers.
efiboots
Posts with mentions or reviews of efiboots.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Is there a linux distro that comes with a GUI tool for editing UEFI boot menu?
Elinvention/efiboots: Manage EFI boot loader entries with this simple GUI works fine. There is a one-liner install for most distros in the Debian, Arch, and Fedora families if that'll do (and what you wanted). It is too esoteric for default inclusion on any distro that I've tried.
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Grub boot manager not loading after windows 11 update
Use efiboots to add (or prioritize) efi entry for ubuntu.
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Dual boot - Grub not showing
Install efibootmgr on your system. It should automatically be installed on most distros. Then download this GitHub repo and run the file called efiboots. Change the order to your preference, and save.
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EasyUEFI equivalent for Linux
Maybe try: https://github.com/Elinvention/efiboots
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Installing Pop_OS without overwriting Windows Bootloader
The machine boots in EFI mode? Every time Pop is installed, it always set itself as the first (default) option in the EFI boot menu. Unless you install manually and do not install the bootloader, I don't think you can avoid this. However, once in Pop!_OS, you can use efibootmgr (or install efibootmgr-gui for a GUI) and change the boot order or add the missing Windoze option back.
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Remove entry from boot menu
The 'blue' part of the 'blue menu' makes me think this might be some Windows menu, rather than the actual UEFI menu. With that said, if you want to edit the UEFI menu (and see if that changes the menu you are seeing) Linux has a couple of utilities to do just that: efibootmgr is a command line utility, and this project provides a simple GUI for it.
- Graphical UEFI boot-target picker?
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How do I delete past iso’s from boot menu?
since i agree with most of the other posters that op was most likely seeing efi boot entries (stored in mobo nvram), efibootmgr seems like the best tool for the job on a linux system. i have never used it, but someone else mentioned that there is a gui version: https://github.com/Elinvention/efibootmgr-gui
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Something is Wrong with GRUB
If the ESP partition still has the booloader for Windoze, you need to create the enrty in the EFI boot menu menu for it. One was is booting from any Linux distro and using efibootmgr to create the entry. It is a bit complicated, but you can find tutorials online. Or use efibootmgr-GUI.
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Windows loader from Linux
You could look into a combination of using efibootmgr (there's this for a gui https://github.com/Elinvention/efibootmgr-gui) on the linux side and this on windows: https://github.com/pgaskin/bootnext
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mkosi and efiboots you can also consider the following projects:
ostree - Operating system and container binary deployment and upgrades
OpenCore-Updater - Update script for OpenCore, some EFI's, and Kexts
btdu - sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs
multibootusb - Create multiboot live Linux on a USB disk...
dnfdragora - dnfdragora is a dnf frontend based on libyui abstraction
pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.
nvidia-auto-installer-for-fedora-linux - A CLI tool which lets you install proprietary NVIDIA drivers and much more easily on Fedora Linux (32 or above and Rawhide)
speedtest-cli - Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net
sig-security - 🔐CNCF Security Technical Advisory Group -- secure access, policy control, privacy, auditing, explainability and more!
arch-btrfs - My Linux PC Config
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.