stagex
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“See https://stagex.tools for contrast.”
“there are multiple projects which provide ways for you to run a full source bootstrap”
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“Stay tuned for stagex for workstations.”
“full source bootstrapped, multi-party-signed, container native, and deterministic alternative to nix”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Any software I absolutely need to -trust- is built with stagex and run in dedicated enclaves”
“the entire distro is always built in one-shot at any given commit”
“protecting hundreds of billions of dollars in fintech infrastructure right now”
“I use QubesOS and my own distro, stagex.”
“Always happy to train up new packagers and maintainers.”
Threads where it came up
- Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root 4 mentions
- The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded 3 mentions
- Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' 3 mentions
- Open Source Security at Astral 3 mentions
- Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why 2 mentions
- RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches 2 mentions
Also written as StageX, Stagex. Data: stagex.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“See https://stagex.tools for contrast.”
“there are multiple projects which provide ways for you to run a full source bootstrap”
“built with https://stagex.tools”
“Stay tuned for stagex for workstations.”
“https://stagex.tools”
“full source bootstrapped, multi-party-signed, container native, and deterministic alternative to nix”
Interesting. Not sure if you are aware, but your toolchain looks nearly identical to another linux distribution.. You might have luck looking for patches there if you ever need them. https://chimera-linux.org/about/#alternative-userland
“one exotic approach to this problem is stagex”
“Its possible to avoid all of those binaries”
“signed commits, signed reviews, container-native design, full source bootstrapping, 100% deterministic builds, and multi-party-signed artifacts check out https://stagex.tools”
It is sad to observe this time and time again. Last year I had the idea to run a shareholder campaign to change this, I suspended it after last years AMD promises - but maybe this really needs to be done: https://unlockgpu.com/action-plan/
https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock/issues/3477 makes me quite sad for a variety of reasons. It shouldn't be like this. This work should be usable.
“For even smaller images that are always deterministic/reproducible with a multi-party signed supply chain, check out https://stagex.tools”
“so far only GNU Guix and StageX have worked out how to start from the BB work to get a full distro”
“https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/bootstrap/stage0/Containerfile”