An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions

• Flatcar

  20 627 7.5 Python

  Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.

  

• linuxkit

  14 8,138 9.1 Go

  A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers

  

docker-the-company maintained https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit when I worked there. I have no idea who maintains it now, but it looks like it is still active (presumably still docker-the-company, since their adopters list [1] lists docker desktop).

[1]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• WolfensteinCGA

  14 313 2.8 C

  Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA renderer

I'm honestly still trying to figure out what I want to do with it. I got the compact flash to use with a XT-CF-Lite v4. I'm still trying to figure out what DOS I'd like to use. I can get the OEM MSDOS 3.22 installed onto the drive, but that version's max partition size is 32MB, which isn't ideal when the compact flash is 4GB. FreeDOS supports that size and pre-386, but it was a pain to get it on there and is a bit overkill for a computer this old. Right now I'm considering a later MSDOS, but haven't decided on which one.

As far as software goes I'm waiting on finalizing the DOS before exploring games and development, but it was fun was to be able to run this port of Wolfenstein 3D:

https://github.com/jhhoward/WolfensteinCGA

Besides all that I'm thinking of maxing out the RAM (it's 640k now, but can take an additional 128k for video), and maybe adding a real time clock and network card. I do have another Tandy 1000 TX, so I could see how 80's networking worked. That is probably another can of worms though.

• rancher

  89 22,517 9.9 Go

  Complete container management platform

  

I think I'm confusing Rancher "proper" and RancherOS, sorry.

https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.7.1

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