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Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions

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Post by locustous » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 12:56 AM UTC

mardifoufs wrote: post #23

LeoPanthera wrote: post #5

This 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.

Proxmox with native docker support would've been a dream. I know, it's easy to add it on top (since it's basically a layer over debian), but you still wouldn't get the native GUI support and the proxmox features that come with it. I don't know why they are so keen on not adding docker, and only focusing on LXC. LXC is fine, but it's pretty clear that it is far from being as popular or commonly used as Docker.

You can run a docker container inside an lxc container. Which would give you the GUI controls over the near docker equivalent.

Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions

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Post by CuriousCosmic » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 2:34 AM UTC

klysm wrote: post #100

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It can be if you use the right base OS. NixOS for all its issues checks most of the boxes for building a single purpose OS and the process of actually building one couldn't be easier. The whole process is effectively: 1. Write a config file 2. Run the command that builds the system 3. Test the system 4. (optional) Run the command that bakes the fresh system generated from the config into an image. 5. Deploy using eit…

Shouldn’t nix be able just output an image?

It absolutely can. I made the distinction between generating an image and using the nix specific infra because once you are in the ecosystem, some people prefer to use that tooling. Also there are some fancy things you can do with config based deployment that are generally harder with image based deployments.

Re: An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions

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Post by iguessthislldo » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #86

iguessthislldo wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm honestly still trying to figure out what I want to do with it. I got the compact flash to use with a XT-CF-Lite v4. I'm still trying to figure out what DOS I'd like to use. I can get the OEM MSDOS 3.22 installed onto the drive, but that version's max partition size is 32MB, which isn't ideal when the compact flash is 4GB. FreeDOS supports that size and pre-386, but it was a pain to get it on there and is a bit ov…

if you have a working Windows 95 or 98 you can format /s a disk and copy the same DOS utilities over to it, and boot it just like a newer version of DOS. W95 is easy, W98 was a little trickier, or maybe I'm thinking of Me, I can't remember any more.

Yeah, I used format /s and copying the other files with the DOS 3.20 that came with the computer to install to that version the compact flash. So that would be an easy way to get a newer DOS installed as well, but I don't have a newer DOS or Windows 9x computer. I ended up installing standalone MS-DOS 6.22 on a VM image and writing that to the compact flash.