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You may be one of today's lucky 10K. https://github.com/cloudozer/ling Erlang on Xen. But also one of today's unlucky 10K as it hasn't been updated for 10 years.

comment by svieira · 2025-11-11 · in How I fell in love with Erlang

…an OS. I really liked that approach and am wondering why it seems to have hit a dead end. [0] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by falcor84 · 2024-05-07 · in Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS

…understand what you are asking for though. There used to be an older project called erlang-on-xen: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling . It'd be great to see this idea revisited although you'll need to create some sort of new…

comment by eyberg · 2023-06-23 · in Running Postgres as a Unikernel

…run into is that BEAM is very good, and would be tough to beat. I was an admirer of Erlang on Xen: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by pessimizer · 2022-09-03 · in DockYard R&D: FireFly Optimizes Your Elixir Compilation

…request, and shut down in less time than it takes a cloud to start spinning up an instance :) [1] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by dmitriid · 2022-05-25 · in Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs

…every major flavour of OS. There also used to be an implementation of the BEAM VM directly on Xen: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling / https://web.archive.org/web/20190507184436/https://erlangonx...

comment by chuchana · 2022-05-07 · in Lisp in Space

…unikernel like MirageOS but was (as you can guess) Erlang specific. I think you can now find it at https://github.com/cloudozer/ling .

comment by felipehuici · 2021-01-25 · in The RustyHermit Unikernel

https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/blob/master/README.md

comment by zeckalpha · 2020-05-17 · in Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance (2019)

reminds me of: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by voganmother42 · 2020-05-14 · in OTP 23

…it, and then the program runs within that guest os. The http://erlangonxen.org/ folks made Ling ( https://github.com/cloudozer/ling ), software that enables an Erlang BEAM VM to be run directly on Xen, and thereby run a single Erlang…

comment by Communitivity · 2018-11-26 · in How to run a program without an operating system?

That's a shame, because Erlang as a unikernel already exists (as https://github.com/cloudozer/ling , unfortunately unmaintained). I'd be really keen on seeing an Erlang port to the Solo5 API, which would give you KVM/bhyve/OpenBSD…

comment by mato · 2018-10-23 · in Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?

Shame https://github.com/cloudozer/ling seems to have stalled.

comment by corysama · 2018-10-23 · in Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?

…related to Ling? It seems like this project has (sadly) died out. Anyone know the current status? https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/issues/141

comment by jesperlang · 2017-12-28 · in Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms

There is even a separately implemented BEAM VM for running directly on Xen hypervisor: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling An impressively done book on BEAM instruction sets: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/tree/master/doc There is even a…

comment by rdtsc · 2017-04-07 · in The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM

…The likely application area for this is NFV, modular software for telecoms. No definite plans" https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by abrookewood · 2016-07-19 · in NFV Platforms with MirageOS Unikernels

…om/thenewwazoo/erl_poc/blob/master/c_src/nod... [1] http://www.grisp.org [2] http://www.rtems.org [3] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/tree/raspberry-pi

comment by thenewwazoo · 2016-06-03 · in Nerves: buildroot linux and Erlang, with an Erlang "init"

comment by rdtsc · 2015-08-07 · in On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel

Erlang on Xen: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by zarkone · 2015-07-19 · in Ask HN: What equivalents of Erlang/OTP exist for other languages?

…it's using the Berkeley DB/Sleepycat license, which is considered Free by both the OSI and FSF. ¹ https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/blob/master/LICENSE

comment by icebraining · 2015-03-29 · in Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System

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Boot hardware (R-Pi) directly to Erlang

story by rdtsc · 2015-02-24 · 0 comments

It seems to have an open-source, copyleft, non-GPL license [1]. [1] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling/blob/master/LICENSE

comment by dragonwriter · 2014-06-13 · in Erlang/OTP – The fastest, cheapest way to build reliable clusters of computers

why, you can grab the source on github: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by ghostwriter · 2014-06-13 · in Erlang/OTP – The fastest, cheapest way to build reliable clusters of computers

https://github.com/cloudozer/ling

comment by crudbug · 2014-05-02 · in Erlang on Xen is open source now

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Erlang On Xen returns its maiden name Ling ang goes Open Source erlangonxen.org

story by viktorsovietov · 2014-05-02 · 0 comments