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Posted by Zta77 5 hours ago

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS(lightwhale.asklandd.dk)
ohai!

I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers.

It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon.

If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide.

In any event, have a nice day! =)

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coreyburnsdev 3 hours ago||
can't imagine a world in which I'd download a little known distro to put on my home network and use as a server. also, doesn't fedora already have something like this already?
tclancy 24 minutes ago||
Game’s truly gone. I remember when all we did was try to find the most obscure indie band of a Linux distro, form emotional attachments and then argue their merits.
edoceo 3 hours ago||
Or use debian slim or Alpine for just enough Linux to run dockers.
ricktdotorg 3 hours ago||
if this is Cloud Run for my home lab, i am SO in.

first read looks good, excited to try.

walrus01 2 hours ago||
If I had a firm requirement to have only one physical piece of hardware home server on bare metal to run further containerized things on, it would be running proxmox, because that grants the ability to run further QEMU, KVM virtualized things, and then to install docker containers inside of any KVM VMs. Even to use QEMU to fully emulate other CPU architectures if necessary.

Or if not proxmox, without a http GUI, just a boring debian stable x86-64 system to manually install QEMU and virt-tools, virsh toolset on to run QEMU/KVM things on with purely CLI management.

This is an interesting general concept but being limited to only running docker containers is a huge constraint.

logic-designer 4 hours ago||
did you say anywhere what package manager it uses (couldnt find that info on the website)
gardnr 3 hours ago||
Looks like it may not have a package manager like apt or dnf:

> Can you please add wget, nano, $my_fav_app_omg_i_love_it to the root filesystem?

> No, not likely.

I am guessing the way to use software not already in the image is to use `docker run`.

mkl 3 hours ago||
It's immutable and you can't install packages, just docker containers.
tamimio 2 hours ago|
I believe for anything home server (or even production), proxmox got you covered, it’s mature, stable, has strong community, and at the end of the day it’s still debian so you can mod it however you like. You can have containers, vms, firewalls, hdd zfs pools, backups, and more. And you can even use something like community scripts for easier installation, although always read the script before you install anything. I have also been playing with BastilleBSD too but I don’t think it’s there yet.