u-root
A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go. (by u-root)
coreutils
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (by uutils)
| u-root | coreutils | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 119 | |
| 2,448 | 16,903 | |
| 1.1% | 1.1% | |
| 9.7 | 10.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Go | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
u-root
Posts with mentions or reviews of u-root.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
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Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go
It looks similar to u-root https://github.com/u-root/u-root, yes, used as part of host firmware. There's a description of u-root in chapter 6 of https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7939-7, too.
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Gokrazy – Go Appliances
"A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go." https://github.com/u-root/u-root
- Gokrazy Is Cool
- O que vocês acham da linguagem Goolang?
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Is it possible to install a linux specific package on osx?
I am trying to build something with github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/strace, but the issue I am running into is that my dev environment is an ARM Mac, while the package is specific to Unix systems.
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Coreutils Rewritten in Rust
I've seem a few attempts. This is just one example: https://github.com/u-root/u-root/tree/master/cmds/core
- u-root – many Linux tools in a single Golang binary, initramfs, and bootloader
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Writing an init with Go (part 1)
Great material! This approach is also used in u-root - Golang busybox created for LinuxBoot. I really enjoy working with it so far!
coreutils
Posts with mentions or reviews of coreutils.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.
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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Not that it should represent the rubicon of when to/not to rewrite code, but when you do, you do trade one set of bugs for a new set of bugs: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues
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The First Stable Release of a Rust-Rewrite Sudo Implementation
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance.
[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- New Version of the Rust Coreutils
- best software for linux
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Looking for a small boring rust project to help my learning.
uutils /coreutils is also a great project. It has many contributors, and it also is a great resource to learn.
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I Built an Implementation of the ls Command to Learn Rust! (Used to List Files in the Terminal)
You might be interested in this? https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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I have years of experience in vulnerability analysis including several 0-day discovery, and this bug [buffer overflow] seems totally safe.
Already did it. Checkmate, as i believe your people say.
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[Media] My Rust OS for microcontrollers now has a dir command
There is already a rust implementation of coreutiils that uses a single binary like BusyBox or toybox. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- Tree(1) in Zig
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Rust is ugly, doesn’t even let you write simple data structures, unsafe rust is not even defined, makes the simplest things so hard to write and did I mention it’s ugly?
Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing u-root and coreutils you can also consider the following projects:
booster - Fast and secure initramfs generator
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
dracut-sshd - Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut
tokei - Count your code, quickly.
nhi - :tv: Automatically capture all potentially useful information about each executed command (as well as its output) and get powerful querying mechanism
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
router7 - router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.
woodpecker - Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
nushell - A new type of shell
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.