Dawn is a high-performance, lightweight system utility written in C++20 that is a cross-platform package manager.
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Dawn is a high-performance, lightweight system utility written in C++20 that is a cross-platform package manager.
A Rust alternative to Flatpak — sandboxed app manager built on bwrap, seccomp, and Landlock, with content-addressed storage and default-deny permissions.
One script provisions a dev environment on immutable Fedora: VSCodium, git, gh, Claude Code, and a lint toolchain in a scoped rootless podman container, exported to the host app menu
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