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daedalOSvsvanilla-cookbook

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

daedalOSvanilla-cookbook
Score72/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 5 in Emulation#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars13 077158
Stars, last 30 days+38+0
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

daedalOS scores 72/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for daedalOS.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; daedalOS needs more configuration.

daedalOS is growing faster right now (+38 stars in 30 days).

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