# ifd3f/caligula

A user-friendly, lightweight TUI for disk imaging

Repository: https://github.com/ifd3f/caligula
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/caligula
Language: Rust
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: disk-image, rust, tui
Last push: 2026-08-24T23:39:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 60, longevity 91
- inputs: {"age_days": 1281, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 104, "gap_med": 106.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2248, forks 36 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:30.103538+00:00)

## What it is
Caligula is a lightweight, user-friendly terminal UI tool for writing disk images to removable drives. It handles disk detection, decompression, hash verification, and post-write validation with an interactive interface.

## Use cases
- burn an iso to a usb drive from the terminal
- write a disk image to sd card safely
- verify checksum of an iso before flashing
- decompress and burn a compressed os image
- list attached disks and pick one to image
- avoid accidentally overwriting the wrong disk

## When to choose
- you want an interactive, safe alternative to dd for flashing images
- you need built-in hash verification and post-write validation
- you want a small, fast, cross-platform CLI tool with a TUI

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI disk imager like balenaEtcher
- you need advanced partitioning or multi-image management features
- you need non-interactive scripted burning with complex automation

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, file-system, compression
- domain: developer-tools, files
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli, rust
- tags: disk-imaging, tui, bootable-usb, burning, hash-verification, terminal-ui, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ifd3f/caligula (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:30.103538+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:43:56.842958+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ifd3f/caligula (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:30.103538+00:00, sha b1be0aa9a260)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/caligula (fetched 2026-08-29T10:24:05.929728+00:00, sha e520f141808d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.