Top 17 Musl Open-Source Projects

• talos

  43 5,302 9.7 Go

  Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

  

Project mention: There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

Super cool. I always enjoy reading about systems that challenge, well, "ossified" assumptions. An OS not providing a shell, for example? Madness! ... or is it genius, if the OS has a specific purpose...? It's thought-provoking, if nothing else.

I'm a bit skeptical of parts. For instance, the "init" binary being less than 400 lines of golang - wow! And sure, main.go [1] is less than 400 lines and very readable. Then you squint at the list of imported packages, or look to the left at the directory list and realize main.go isn't nearly the entire init binary.

That `talosctl list` invocation [2] didn't escape my notice either. Sure, the base OS may have only a handful of binaries - how many of those traditional utilities have been stuffed into the API server? Not that I disagree with the approach! I think every company eventually replaces direct shell access with a daemon like this. It's just that "binary footprint" can get a bit funny if you have a really sophisticated API server sitting somewhere.

[1]: https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/blob/main/internal/app/m...

[2]: https://www.talos.dev/v1.6/reference/cli/#talosctl-list

• oasis

  26 2,704 8.8 Roff

  a small statically-linked linux system

  

Project mention: Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-26

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• musl-cross-make

  5 1,184 5.5 Makefile

  Simple makefile-based build for musl cross compiler

• muslrust

  5 885 7.7 Rust

  Docker environment for building musl based static linux rust binaries

• sabotage

  1 538 8.4 Shell

  a radical and experimental distribution based on musl libc and busybox

  

• glaucus

  6 282 8.1

  A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox

  

• ataraxia

  2 279 0.0 Shell

  Simple and lightweight source-based multi-platform Linux distribution with musl libc.

  

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• iglunix

  3 213 9.3 Shell

  Linux (and other kernels) distro with no GNU components

  

• ghc-musl

  1 136 1.8 Shell

  Docker image with GHC+musl for static executables

• docker-rustup

  0 91 0.0 Dockerfile

  Automated builded images for rust-lang with rustup, "the ultimate way to install RUST"

• hello_musl

  1 82 0.0 Nim

  NimScript (config.nims) for building a static binary using Nim + musl + pcre + libressl/openssl

• voidnsrun

  3 62 2.5 C

  Run glibc binaries in musl libc Void Linux environment

• BSDCoreUtils

  4 42 0.0 C

  BSD coreutils is a port of many utilities from BSD to Linux and macOS.

• ghc-alt-libc

  1 41 4.9

  GHC compiled against musl & uClibc

• iox-community

  3 34 8.6 Shell

  Community InfluxDB 3.0 "IOx" static builds + containers + Examples for Developers & Integrators. Experiment with low-cost storage, unlimited cardinality and FlightSQL APIs

  

Project mention: InfluxDB 3.0 Infinite Observability with qryn-iox | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-17

Watch out for the AGPL minio <https://github.com/metrico/iox-community/blob/155a14bb5e8e32...> the almost certainly AGPL grafana <https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/v10.1.1/LICENSE> and always eye anyone who uses :latest images with healthy suspicion

That said, influx_iox itself appears to be Apache 2 (and/or MIT?) https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox/blob/main/LICENSE...

• gentoo-patchset

  1 17 5.6

  Patchset containing fixes for a working LLVM + Musl Gentoo installation

  

• snacklinux

  2 12 7.6 Makefile

  Linux distribution for lazy people

Project mention: Easylkb: Easy Linux Kernel Builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-21

https://github.com/snacsnoc/snacklinux

It uses musl and builds using a musl cross compiler, working x86 and arm64 builds. You could easily build a toolchain for your desired arch and make a simple distro, adding in any user space tools.

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