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Any Linux distribution, anywhere.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-03-19 · latest 2025-08-23

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  1. …you get a Debian desktop running within a Docker container - see https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos
    comment by aperturecjs · 2025-08-23 · in I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
  2. There’s also SkiffOS ( https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS ). It’s a project that uses buildroot to create a small Linux for a specific device that’s only used to start a container. I’ve wanted to try it sometime after getting headaches…
    comment by elcritch · 2025-02-22 · in Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images
  3. Alternatives that support more than just Debian: https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS (Based on buildroot) https://www.yoctoproject.org/
    comment by angelofdeauth · 2023-02-28 · in Linux-factory: A framework used to create custom Linux Debian operating systems
  4. …allow for running any of the [6] and [7] os'es. [0] webedge : http://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge ( http://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS http://medium.com/@raphael.outhier/joys-of-porting-a-kernel-to-webassembly-5f0124e71080 ) [1] :…
    comment by sargstuff · 2023-02-06 · in Ask HN: Most production-ready obscure free OS outside embedded?
  5. …system contains everything needed to support the hardware, cleanly separated from the applications. https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos
    comment by thinkmassive · 2021-04-02 · in SkiffOS: Minimal Cross-Compiled Linux for Embedded Containers