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GoboLinux 016 is a Linux distribution with an unconventional filesystem organization that eliminates the need for a traditional package manager. The release introduces Runner, a new filesystem virtualization tool that… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. GoboLinux 016 featuring Runner, a filesystem virtualization tool launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    An application innovation platform delivering a comprehensive experience with tools to empower organizations to modernize and build new applications, accelerate AI adoption, and fuel growth.

    2013 · coreos.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Surya and I’m excited to show you WarpBuild! WarpBuild provides fast, secure `x86-64` and `arm64` Github actions runners. This speeds up your workloads by 30%, at half the cost, and takes ~2mins to get started. We’ve been seeing pretty good results since we opened up signups a week ago and I’ve shared some numbers publicly here [1]. Currently, we support linux runners for Github organizations (not personal accounts) and MacOS support is coming soon (~Jan). The way the runners work is deceptively simple: Runners are assigned to hardware that is ideal for build workloads with fast…

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv) - Xfennec/progress

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload, including untrusted and AI-generated code. Daemonless: a real, kernel-enforced container in ~3.5 ms from an OCI image, out of one static binary - getkern/kern

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Drop: a rootless Linux sandbox for developers. It isolates coding agents and third-party packages while preserving your work environment.

    Sep 2026 · droprun.sh · its alternatives →

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    hey guys. the other day i was migrating hosting providers and i just needed something not too heavy and convenient to spin up my backups for awhile and realised there is almost nothing out there. kimchi hasn't been updated for years and cockpit is heavy. so here's something i came up with in a couple hours because of a sudden urge, nothing fancy just basic creation with cloud init, lifecycle management and image/storage, but it's modern-ish and it compiles to a 8.4mb binary inclusive of the embedded web UI, CLI and API, and only dep is libvirt.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RunsOnfree tier, from $300/mo▲142

    10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners, self-hosted on AWS

    2024 · runs-on.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’ve been running GitHub Actions workflows for a while, and when GitHub announced the new ubuntu-slim runners as a cheaper alternative to ubuntu-latest, I wanted to migrate—but figuring out which workflows are safe to switch turned out to be surprisingly tedious. You need to check for Docker usage, services, containers, step failures due to missing packages, and whether jobs rely on tools not available in the slim image. So I built gh-slimify, a GitHub CLI extension that automates all of this. It scans your repository, detects which jobs can be migrated, flags incompatible patterns,…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source robotic process automation system 🚀

    2019 · orchestra.b12.io · its alternatives →

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    Create microVMs from OCI images. Contribute to slp/krunvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuild▲144

    30% faster, 50% cheaper Github actions runners

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I just released go-nbd, a lightweight Go library for effortlessly creating NBD servers and clients. Its a neat tool for creating custom Linux block devices with arbitrary backends, such as a file, byte slice or what I'm planning to use it for, a tape drive. While there are a few partially abandoned projects like this out there already, this library tries to be as maintainable as possible by only implementing the most recent handshake revision and baseline functionality for both the client and the server, while still having enough support to be useful. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Twin-turbojet VTOL autonomous air vehicle

    2024 · anduril.com · its alternatives →

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    Run AI jobs from your IDE with a one-click workflow

    Mar 2026 · oncompute.ai · its alternatives →

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    Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers - TekWizely/run

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The #1 Golang Task Runner

    2017 · spinages.io · its alternatives →

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    Linux filesystem defragger written in Rust and Qt Quick/Kirigami - gbin/defragger

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made this for my personal workflow, but I'd love to get feedback from the community.

    2025 · simonask.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    dstack is a unified control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works with any GPU cloud, Kubernetes, or on-prem clusters.

    2024 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hacker News, We're the maintainers of docker/model-runner and wanted to share some major updates we're excited about. Link: https://github.com/docker/model-runner We are rebooting the community: https://www.docker.com/blog/rebooting-model-runner-community... At its core, model-runner is a simple, backend-agnostic tool for downloading and running local large language models. Think of it as a consistent interface to interact with different model backends. One of our main backends is llama.cpp, and we make it a point to contribute any…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Warning: this whole post is a blatant plug for my Open Source project https://github.com/etiennesillon/ModelRunner There is lot of discussion around no code platforms and why developers don’t like them. My view is that they can be very useful to quickly get through the boring parts of a project, like creating master data management screens for example. So I’ve built my own version which interprets models at run time and, it turns out, understands natural language queries too! Hi, my name is Etienne, I love coding and I’ve been doing it for a few decades now so I’d rather…

    2022 · modelrunner.org · its alternatives →

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