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I only need to run text-based applications on my server. think LAMP + ssh. It seems unnecessary to install entire distributions, like ubuntu, just to fire up apache and serve up my one web app. instead, it would be nice to have a more lightweight distro that runs easily in a container (lxc docker) as well as on my old hardware as well as a virtual machine as well as ...

does this kind of "light text-based server distro" exist anywhere?

ivo Welch
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Yes. CoreOS is what you're looking for. It's a new-ish linux distro, targeted at providing a bare minimum OS for docker deployments.

Alternatively, just install Debian or even Ubuntu's Server distribution. Either are quite lightweight.

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