[Lxc-users] A footing for lxc - a fitted distribution

[Daniel Baumann]

On 10/20/2011 11:25 AM, Clemens Perz wrote:
> does anybody know about a minimized, actively maintained distribution,
> that brings everything to run a container, and thats it?

being a debian developer (and maintainer of lxc in debian), i'm doing
that in the form of a state-of-the-art debian derivative, see
http://www.progress-linux.org/. in my total biased opinion, it is the
best available debian based system for lxc host and container systems.


the 1.0.x releases are squeeze plus required fixes for lxc (and a few
other things that just are broken in debian stable).

if you want newer stuff (like current lxc or kernels), you can go with
1.9.x (which is squeeze plus fixes plus backports of certain key
packages). however, until the first 1.9.x release images are ready
(needs some backports of debian-installer), you can't install it
directly but have to install 1.0.x, enable backports, and run apt-get
update && apt-get upgrade.

the current so called 'server-lxc' images are ~250mb and are combined
live and installer iso-hybrid images (can be written to optical media as
well as dumped to usb sticks).

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