MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements

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Post by rbrownsuse » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 1:24 PM UTC

MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements
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Re: MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements

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Post by curt15 » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

Worth noting that there's also MicroOS Desktop [1], basically like Fedora Silverblue but implemented using btrfs subvolumes and snapshots instead of OSTree.

[1]https://dariofaggioli.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/opensuse-micr...

Re: MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements

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Post by Koshkin » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

> MicroOS

> 5 GB

Right...

Re: MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements

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Post by rbrownsuse » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #3

> MicroOS > 5 GB Right...

> 285 MB without bare metal hardware support.

All you need if you're never going to update it or you're going to take steps to ensure the installed workload doesn't eat up excess space.

Re: MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements

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Post by rombert » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 10:01 PM UTC

I've been running a homelab cluster on Kubic for about a month. My favourite part is definitely waking up in the morning to a new kernel version or patch k8s upgrade.