Top 4 Go Busybox Projects

u-root

9 2,430 9.7 Go

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.

Project mention: Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-28

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.

sysbox

9 206 4.8 Go

sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary (by skx)

Project mention: OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-08

Yes, I first learned this and the name "splay" from CFengine, back in the day.
I put together a small busybox-like collection of sysadmin tools, and one of the subcommands is "splay" to sleep for a random amount of time. It's one of those things that is useful surprisingly often, even outside cron.
https://github.com/skx/sysbox

WorkOS

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fil

1 87 5.5 Go

:yum: Unix file command written in Go
mimixbox

3 30 6.1 Go

MimixBox - mimic BusyBox on Linux

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-28.