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)
dracut-sshd
Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut (by gsauthof)
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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!
dracut-sshd
Posts with mentions or reviews of dracut-sshd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
- Tinyssh
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home server encryption
There is also dracut-sshd, which works great for distros using - surprise - dracut.
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Encryption with NAS Volume
Personally, I'm running OpenSuse Tumbleweed and used the graphical installer this time out of convenience. If you want to remotely unlock it over ssh, I can recommend https://github.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd. Works pretty well.
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I switched to MicroOS GNOME and I don't think I'm returning back to regular distributions
The only thing that prevented me from going with MicroOS during my last server install was uncertainty about how well it would handle remote unlocking of luks system encryption for which I'm using dracut-sshd.
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Getting WiFi to Connect Early (for dracut-sshd).
I'm trying to use the dracut-sshd package on Fedora 35. The instructions only describe how to use dracut-network and networkd to get a wired internet connection during boot (for SSH to work). I'm completely unfamiliar with these so I'm not sure what to change in order to make it work with a wireless connection instead. I tried changing their example in various ways with no luck.
- Remotely unlocking headless server
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Remote unlocking encrypted system via ssh doesn't work!
I prefer this https://github.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd
What are some alternatives?
When comparing u-root and dracut-sshd you can also consider the following projects:
booster - Fast and secure initramfs generator
wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.
nhi - :tv: Automatically capture all potentially useful information about each executed command (as well as its output) and get powerful querying mechanism
dracut-crypt-ssh - dracut initramfs module to start dropbear sshd during boot to unlock the root filesystem with the (cryptsetup) LUKS passphrase remotely
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
router7 - router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.
ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu - Ubuntu zfsbootmenu install script
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
nushell - A new type of shell
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
u-root vs booster
dracut-sshd vs wireguard-initramfs
u-root vs nhi
dracut-sshd vs dracut-crypt-ssh
u-root vs coreutils
dracut-sshd vs dracut
u-root vs router7
dracut-sshd vs ubuntu-server-zfsbootmenu
u-root vs nixpkgs
dracut-sshd vs yubikey-full-disk-encryption
u-root vs nushell
dracut-sshd vs zfsbootmenu