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Hello, World! 💫

I've been working on a hobby project for some time, and I recently released it. I call it 🥁🎉

Lightwhale

It's a free, minimalistic operating system streamlined for running Docker containers on bare-metal x86 servers. It strives to be zero-installation, zero-configuration, and zero-maintenance, and is very easy to use.

I used to run a home server with Ubuntu and Docker installed, but got fed up with updates, dist upgrades, reinstalls, and endless backups, restores, and rerereconfigurations. Lightwhale is specifically designed to eliminate all this and make home servers fun again. So if you run a similar setup, this is absolutely for you.

Lightwhale isn't limited to home servers, though, but can be used in a variety of use-cases like IoT hub, on-prem enterprise edge server. Anything Docker, really.

Try Lightwhale today! Or ... you know, whenever you have the time and feel up for it. But please, for the sake of your own precious spare time: Do it before your server reaches its next end-of-life 😜

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@Linux_Is_Best Yes, bind-mounting a writable partition onto an immutable filesystem is a pretty basic and standard way of accomplishing writability on an immutable system. Lightwhale Linux is also immutable, and it does this too — only slightly improved: It uses overlayfs to merge the _persistence partition_ on top of the read-only, and it only does this for certain critical directors, like `/etc`. This way only changed files are persisted, which saves space and makes backup easier. And it does partitioning, formatting, overlaying, and formatting automatically upon request!
It's not unbreakable, though; write a crap `/etc/inittab` or `/etc/passwd` for instance, and the system is wrecked. But then again, most systems are...

#Lightwhale live-boots straight into an operational #Docker engine, and because it's #immutable it's literally maintenance-free and works out of the box, so try it out:

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@shipp It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish, I guess. If you want a Linux server to run #Docker containers, I have only one recommendation: #Lightwhale. It's a zero-installation, zero-configuration, and zero-maintenance #immutable Linux for #bare-metal servers that boots straight into a working Docker Engine. Try it:

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/mass