Go · BSD-3-Clause
u-root/u-root
A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
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470 forks · 165 open issues
+4.0/wk
Growth · measured
Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.
38.5
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
10y ago
Created
last push 4d ago
Star history
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 3.8 | +4.0/wk, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 9.8 | last week ran 1.65× the monthly pace |
| Freshness | 15 | 14.9 | last push 4d ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 10.1 | 3.1k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 38.5 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | busyboxcorebootembeddedhacktoberfestinitramfskernellinuxlinuxbootramfssystemtinycore |
| Matched on | Mechatronics (embedded) |
| Short window | +4 stars over 7 days = 0.6/day |
| Long window | +9 stars over 26 days = 0.3/day |
| Lifetime average | 0.77 stars/day over 4,004 days |
| First seen here | 2026-10-11 |
| Last read | 2d ago |