An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
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#2FOSDEM talk about Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu Core, openSUSE MicroOS, and Bottlerocket OS and how they all tackle the single purpose problem in their own way.
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#3Interesting article. For folks who need to put together their own distro, especially for embedded applications, Yocto and Buildroot both lower the barrier to rolling your own and getting exactly what you need to something quite reasonable.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#4FOSDEM talk about Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu Core, openSUSE MicroOS, and Bottlerocket OS and how they all tackle the single purpose problem in their own way.
Came looking for info on distros like Kali and other assemblages of tools for a particular purpose. Found this.
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#5This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works?
I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#6This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Closest thing is probably Synology... but it's pretty basic and you need to use the terminal for some advanced things. I don't know how much a GUI helps because there's still a lot of terminology that needs to be understood.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#7This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Not sure if that's what you're looking for but there are Kubernetes distros. And yes, this also includes a relatively nice Web UI. But it's probably not easy to setup.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#8This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
Not a distro, and don’t know how far you can get without knowing much about docker, but you could deploy something like Portainer.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#9This is one of those things that I've always been too scared to ask so I'm just going to ask it now: Is there a distro designed exclusively for running docker (and perhaps other) containers that also contains a friendly web UI for people who have no idea how docker actually works? I'm familiar with Proxmox, but it doesn't natively support docker.
RancherOS if you're looking to use something heavily tested but it's got a few weird features like most of the OS also being in containers. If you want something light to play with and get a vanilla docker experience, your best bet is likely Boot2Docker with Portainer.
Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
#10FOSDEM talk about Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu Core, openSUSE MicroOS, and Bottlerocket OS and how they all tackle the single purpose problem in their own way.
There's also FlatcarOS if you want something more like the original CoreOS without the Fedora influences.