Show HN: Alpenglow, a Linux distribution that boots to login in 0.6s

Category: infrastructure

Tags: linux-distribution, rust, zig, initramfs, minimal-os

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Alpenglow is a minimal, high-performance Linux distribution built with Rust, Zig, and musl+LLVM, booting to login in under a second. Its innovative combination of diskless/immutable mode, custom init and kernel modules, and extreme efficiency targets embedded and edge computing. The project is technically impressive but currently limited to QEMU virt, pending real hardware support.

Target audience: embedded devs, systems programmers, devops, edge computing engineers

Repository: https://github.com/tschk/alpenglow · Rust · MPL-2.0 · 2 stars

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