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butter-hopper
butter-hopper is a collection of tools to help making switching between multiple distros easier butter-hopper allows you to try out multiple distros on a single large BTRFS partition using BTRFS subvolumes.
Features:
- butter-hopper uses
systemd-nspawn
toch-boot
into your desired distro - And if you wanna take it for an actual spin on your hardware you can do that too
- butter-hopper will extract boot entries in the OS and present them in GRUB/rEFInd menu.
- Installing and upgrading various common packages on many distros can be time consuming.
butter-hopper usesnix
as package management/cache which can be used from any distro - Support installing tools like IDE, VSCode which don't need to be packaged to
/common
- PLANNED: Using qemu/KVM to boot GUI to another distro
Pre:requesties
- Make sure all of distro use systemd and support btrfs which should be any recent distro
- For the boot to hardware you want to make sure you have a recent version of GRUB2 installed with
support for btrfs.
butter hopper tools
btrhop
: The main command line interface to btrhop which allows managing snapshots, running, upgrading distrosbootcrap
: Command line tools to bootstrap a distro from rootfs or docker images.mntem
: A tool to help manage multiple mount points of BTRFS subvolumes/ shared storage.nixy
: Helper script to installnix
and setup packages on common/nix/store
Sharing:
While using a default user of 1000
and allowing any user to change stuffs in /home
works.
butter-hopper
recommends using differnt user ids of your primary user and supports in the config.
To take a sample config of butter-hopper.conf
look at my dotfile in your preferred Git hosting.
Tips:
Change your default subvol to "/staging" so you dont accidentally mount the real root
To do that simply run btrhop populate-distros --staging
Working
This is the layout pulled directly from my current install.
butter-hopper installs distros to /distros
in your btrfs partition
distros
├── arch
│ ├── @
│ └── home
├── debian-buster
│ ├── @
│ └── home
├── fedora
│ ├── @
│ └── home
├── tumbleweed
│ ├── @
│ └── home
├── ubuntu-latest
│ ├── @
│ └── home
License
Copyright (c) 2019 Cswl Coldwind cswl1337@gmail.com Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt
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