Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host

Re:Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host by peterwwillis on Monday April 20, 2015 @03:56PM (#9410459)

The ISO is 959 megabytes. I wouldn't call this minimal.

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Re:Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host by scott_karana on Monday April 20, 2015 @05:11PM (#9410909)

That's a superb point. I was assuming this would be Debian netinst size (222MB) and wouldn't have known otherwise if it wasn't for your comment.

Makes me wonder how minimal it really is. :-)

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Re:Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host by travem on Monday April 20, 2015 @06:30PM (#9411239)

Installing this in a VM it appears there are four installation options: 1. Photon OS (Micro) 2. Photon Container OS (Minimal) 3. Photon Full OS (All) 4. Photon Custom OS

Looking at the Photon Getting Started Guide (for Fusion)[1] it looks like the same ISO is intended to support multiple types of installation, so it is not the ISO that is necessarily optimized but the resulting OS (based on the selection in the installation) that is supposed to be.

[1] Page 10 of https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/getting_started...

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