<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I second the vote for Alpine Linux. My application is a mix of Erlang and Elixir and runs in Docker containers. I use Alpine as the base and I get reasonably sized containers that don't have anything I don't need.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">As a side note, it isn't just about providing the necessary support to run the BEAM VM. I also want enough of a familiar environment (ls, ps, top, nslookup/dig, netstat) to troubleshoot issues. Alpine provides that without the other stuff that you don't need.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">~phil</div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1505495481009063936" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On September 15, 2017 at 9:47:00 AM, <a href="mailto:felixgallo@gmail.com">felixgallo@gmail.com</a> (<a href="mailto:felixgallo@gmail.com">felixgallo@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>
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<div>FreeBSD and alpine Linux have both served me well. </div>
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On Sep 15, 2017, at 7:20 AM, Lloyd R. Prentice <<a href="mailto:lloyd@writersglen.com">lloyd@writersglen.com</a>>
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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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