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Video: Security-Enhanced Linux for mere mortals
PDF: Security-Enhanced Linux for mere mortals
Handbook for building a linux system from scratch by building all components from source.
Includes a 'sys-v init' and a 'systemd' version.
Linux image builder based on Buildroot: fwilhe2/buildroot-image-builder
Buildroot automatically creates root filesystems based on configuration. It is geared towards embedded systems and has multiple output formats. It can generate OCI images, qemu images and images for actual hardware platforms such as the raspi.
Slides by Jérémy Rosen: Buildroot - Using embedded tools to build container images
Makefiles
Builds toolchains from scratch, compiles kernel and userland from scratch
A fancy wrapper around
dnf --installroot,apt,pacmanandzypperthat generates customized disk images with a number of bells and whistles.
Written in Python
Uses binary packages
Puts out new releases often, needs a very new systemd version that might not be available in mainstream linux distributions
Repo with vm definition to build mkosi images
salsa.debian.org/helmutg/debvm
Specific to debian
Based on mmdebstrap.
Creates disk image without bootloader, relies on qemu for that.
A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
Written in Go
Uses yaml manifests
Based on Containers
Used for Docker Desktop
Introducing Wolfi: The first Linux (un)distro designed for securing the software supply chain
Built for container base images, does not seem to include a kernel a all.
Based on Alpine Linux tooling (apk package manager), but uses glibc instead of musl for larger compatibility.
Uses melange for building distro packages. Example file for building a package, including applying patches.