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Minimal Linux container host
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2015-04-21 · latest 2024-04-02
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VMware and Microsoft ship Linux images built for VMs https://github.com/vmware/photon https://github.com/microsoft/cbl-mariner
comment by moondev · 2024-04-02 · in A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs -
Photon is developed/managed by VMWare. https://github.com/vmware/photon
comment by mbilker · 2021-07-20 · in CBL-Mariner – Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances -
…It may be optimized to run on a VMware product, but doesn't seem that's a requirement. [1] https://github.com/vmware/photon [2] http://vmware.github.io/photon/
comment by walterclifford · 2015-06-15 · in VMware Photon: Minimal Linux Container Host -
Would be nice to have more detail on tyum, https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/docs/tyum.md "a new, open-source, yum-compatible package manager that will help make the system as small as possible, but preserve the robust yum…
comment by walterbell · 2015-06-15 · in VMware Photon: Minimal Linux Container Host -
…than the package system. VMware wrote a dnf/yum replacement in pure C, with no python dependencies: https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/tyum.md This is what makes it possible for Photon to be so small, but still have yum-like…
comment by hapless · 2015-04-21 · in Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host