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daedalOSvstessera

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daedalOStessera
Score72/10047/100
Rank in category#2 of 5 in Emulation#98 of 166 in Developer Tools
GitHub stars13 078314
Stars, last 30 days+39+0
Stable releases, 12 months015
Latest release—v0.2.4 · 25 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

daedalOS scores 72/100 against 47/100 for tessera, so it is the safer default.

tessera ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for daedalOS.

daedalOS is growing faster right now (+39 stars in 30 days).

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