Project Summary
libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a hypervisor. Via the magic of GObject Introspection, the API is available in all common programming languages with demos for javascript (GJS/Seed) and python (PyGObject).
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 22 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2009
ending with its most recent commit about 2 months ago
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