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

[Ramez Hanna]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Clemens Perz <cperz at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> does anybody know about a minimized, actively maintained distribution,
> that brings everything to run a container, and thats it?
>
> I was thinking to have a very small and very up-to-date base
> installation on my notebook and start my desktop directly in a container.
>
> At first glance, maybe arch linux could be the right platform for it.
> But minimal install with 460 mb may contain a lot of things I dont need.
> So before forking and stripping it, I would like to ask you humble
> optinions :))
>
> Here are some constrains and features, I was thinking about:
>
> - minimal set of libs and tools, only stuff really needed to get a
>  container up and running
> - current versions of the software and kernel
> - minimized dependency hell
> - optional: backup system
> - optional: kvm
>
> I took a look at gentoo too, but it seems to me this would be a very
> very advanced approach, instead of an only advanced aproach :))
>
> Cheers,
> Clemens
>
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I would tend to think that ubuntu server minimal install woud be best,
and ubuntu seems to have the most support for containers from the
community here

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