runix VS lanzaboote

Compare runix vs lanzaboote and see what are their differences.

runix

A type-safe Rust interface to the Nix CLI (by flox)

lanzaboote

Secure Boot for NixOS [maintainers=@blitz @raitobezarius @nikstur] (by nix-community)
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runix lanzaboote
2 4
100 667
- 13.2%
6.8 9.0
3 months ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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runix

Posts with mentions or reviews of runix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-07.
  • The Flox Open Beta
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2023
    We see a few tools that do a similar built-on-top-of-Nix approach, so we released a Rust library that makes using the "command line API" in a more type-safe manner: https://github.com/flox/runix
  • flox – Harness the Power of Nix
    7 projects | /r/NixOS | 7 Feb 2023
    I wasn't aware of npt, thanks! We've also released https://github.com/flox/runix as a library to make it easier to wrap Nix.

lanzaboote

Posts with mentions or reviews of lanzaboote. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing runix and lanzaboote you can also consider the following projects:

nix-bundle - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!

nixos-apple-silicon - Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs

npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.

sandkasten - Run untrusted code in an isolated environment

dream2nix - Simplified nix packaging for various programming language ecosystems [maintainer=@DavHau]

flambda-backend - The Flambda backend project for OCaml

capacitor

ocaml-flake-example - An overly elaborate example of building a ‘Hello World’ package with Nix flakes, OCaml, and Dune

nixos-mailserver

devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

nixos-cfgs - my NixOS system configs