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<p><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'FSBaskerville'">Hi,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'FSBaskerville'">Joe Armstrong states in his 2003 Doctor of Technology thesis:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'FSBaskerville'">"Our system has very little need of an operating system. We make
use of very few operating system services, thus it is relatively easy
to port our system to specialised environments such as embedded
systems."</span></p><p><font face="FSBaskerville"><span style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">As a one-time Forth developer, software bloat offends me. I sigh and use Ubuntu on my development system out laziness and convenience.</span></font></p><p><font face="FSBaskerville"><span style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">But I would like my production servers to be lean and mean.</span></font></p><p><font face="FSBaskerville"><span style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">What light weight open-source off-the shelf operating systems would battle-hardened Erlang gurus recommend?</span></font></p><p><font face="FSBaskerville"><span style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">All the best,</span></font></p><p><font face="FSBaskerville"><span style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">LRP</span></font></p>
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