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

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Daniel Baumann (daniel.baumann at progress-technologies.net):
> 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).

Hey, that's neat - thanks, Daniel :)

-serge