supermin VS kickstarts

Compare supermin vs kickstarts and see what are their differences.

supermin

tool for creating supermin appliances (formerly called febootstrap). PLEASE DO NOT USE GITHUB FOR ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS. See the website for how to file a bug or contact us. http://libguestfs.org (by libguestfs)
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supermin kickstarts
2 4
161 22
1.2% -
6.0 0.0
4 months ago about 1 month ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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supermin

Posts with mentions or reviews of supermin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-22.
  • Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2023
    He briefly mentions dietlibc ("not evolving anymore") and ulibc. I think he'd be better off contributing to those projects.

    FWIW I have built a program that needs a tiny initramfs[1] and we've found that dietlibc and musl worked really well in producing very tiny programs. Using glibc is terrible however - it links huge amounts of code into even the smallest program.

    [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/86fd6f3e86ab99d5...

  • RootFS Tooling
    6 projects | /r/LinuxNotes | 14 Nov 2021
    Supermin - libguestfs

kickstarts

Posts with mentions or reviews of kickstarts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.
  • Script or ks file to generate azure images Rocky Linux 9
    2 projects | /r/RockyLinux | 22 Feb 2023
    All kickstarts are here: https://git.resf.org/sig_core/kickstarts (mirrored here).
  • 8.6 Generic cloud image has been utterly broken since its release on May 14...
    1 project | /r/RockyLinux | 2 Jul 2022
    I recognize that "1" has been broken for a long time. There really isn't an excuse, but even so, this is a volunteer effort and majority of our work has been on Rocky 9 outside of our regular day-to-day. Since "1" has been broken for a long while, receiving more feedback or an attempted fix from elsewhere to try to remind us or get us working on a fix in general in between the work we've been putting in Rocky 9. Yes, there's been an outstanding bug report as you've linked, but this is all volunteer work and things will unfortunately and inevitably fall through the cracks for us. We are human after all. What I would suggest to anyone is if there are concerns, while a bug report does let us know what's going on, feedback in the form of a fix, suggestion, or otherwise through reddit, email, forums, mattermost, github issue are all sufficient to get the notification out there. Or even an extra comment on the bug report to get the email notification and mattermost notification to us helps too. And as an aside too, feedback could be left not only as a bug report, but also at the kickstarts repo itself. We always review PR's and issues.
  • Rocky Linux 8.6 Released
    1 project | /r/RockyLinux | 16 May 2022
    Note: KDE images are not available. There was an issue with sddm that we were unable to resolve. If you would like to help us resolve this, please join us at our mattermost or open a PR on our github here: https://github.com/rocky-linux/kickstarts/tree/r8
  • RootFS Tooling
    6 projects | /r/LinuxNotes | 14 Nov 2021
    Kickstarts for livemedia-creator - Rocky Linux

What are some alternatives?

When comparing supermin and kickstarts you can also consider the following projects:

infra-devops - Infra and DevOps Utils, like Kickstart to RootFS file builder in docker/podman environment, using AlmaLinux as foundation. This utility can be used in CI/CD pipeline to build docker RootFS files

sig-cloud-instance-images

rootfs - Linux root file system builder in the spirit of buildroot

libc - libc targeted for embedded systems usage. Reduced set of functionality (due to embedded nature). Chosen for portability and quick bringup.

linuxkit - A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

printf - Tiny, fast, non-dependent and fully loaded printf implementation for embedded systems. Extensive test suite passing.