GoNIX
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GoNIX is a UNIX-like operating system built on the Linux kernel whose userspace, including init, coreutils, networking, device management, and SSH, is written mostly in Go instead of C or shell scripts. It ships with its own package manager, pkg, which builds packages from source with checksum verification, and boots to a shell in roughly 20 milliseconds on both amd64 and arm64.
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Offers developers a from-source, auditable, Go-based alternative userspace to standard Linux distros, with fast boot and a real package ecosystem, worth evaluating for lightweight server or embedded deployments.
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