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Re:Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host by jamiesonbecker on Monday April 20, 2015 @08:17PM (#9411627)
Why not just image Alpine Linux[1] for an awesome minimal Linux, or RancherOS[2] for a minimal Docker host (or CoreOS) and be done with it?

Kinda reminds me of Unbreakable Linux.. just because you can doesn't mean you should.

1. http://www.alpinelinux.org/

2. http://rancher.com/rancher-os/

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Re:Photon – Minimal Linux Container Host by frostmatthew on Monday April 20, 2015 @08:53PM (#9411732)
From the FAQ[1]

For vSphere customers, Project Photon can extend the capabilities of the software-defined data center such as security, identity and resource management to containerized workloads. Organizations can then leverage a single infrastructure architecture for both traditional and cloudnative Apps, and leverage existing investments in tools, skills and technologies

Project Photon can deliver performance through kernel tuning to remove redundant caching between the Linux kernel and the vSphere hypervisor, and advanced security services through network micro-segmentation delivered by VMware NSX

[1] https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/photon_faqs.pdf

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