VMware Photon Linux

Photon™ is a technology preview of a minimal Linux container host. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly on VMware platforms. Photon™ is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment.

Optimized for vSphere - Validated on VMware product and provider platforms. Container support - Supports Docker, rkt, and the Pivotal Garden container specifications. Efficient lifecycle management - contains a new, open-source, yum-compatible package manager that will help make the system as small as possible, but preserve the robust yum package management capabilities.

More: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/

Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:46 PM UTC

indykish1 wrote: post #2

What is the purpose of this linux ?

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Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by Dystopian » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

godojo wrote: post #4

indykish1 wrote: post #2

What is the purpose of this linux ?

From: https://vmware.github.io/photon/ Photon™ is a technology preview of a minimal Linux container host. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly on VMware platforms. Photon™ is intended to invite collaboration around running containerized applications in a virtualized environment. Optimized for vSphere - Validated on VMware product and provider platforms. Container support - Supports Dock…

I just posted this at the exact same time as you

Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by teh_klev » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by georgyo » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

twelvenmonkeys wrote: post #3

indykish1 wrote: post #2

What is the purpose of this linux ?

Containerization. Similar to Project Atomic, CoreOS or RancherOS. The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or even a 20MB RancherOS install. It's bloated.

It's not bloated, its enterprise!

Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by frostmatthew » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 3:28 PM UTC

twelvenmonkeys wrote: post #3

indykish1 wrote: post #2

What is the purpose of this linux ?

Containerization. Similar to Project Atomic, CoreOS or RancherOS. The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or even a 20MB RancherOS install. It's bloated.

> The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB

The ISO supports three installations (micro, minimal, full) see page 10 of https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/getting_started...

Re: VMware Photon Linux

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Post by cbd1984 » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

twelvenmonkeys wrote: post #3

indykish1 wrote: post #2

What is the purpose of this linux ?

Containerization. Similar to Project Atomic, CoreOS or RancherOS. The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or even a 20MB RancherOS install. It's bloated.

Unless we're just using "bloated" as a snarl term, it has to mean "too big for what it's being used for", which is distinct from "too big for my preferred way of solving the problem".

For example, most editors are larger than ed. However, ed can't support the same kinds of workflow that most other editors can. Therefore, those other editors are not bloated because ed is smaller: ed can't do the same jobs.

So, is it 992 MB because it does a different job, or is it 992 MB because they didn't care about size?