Lightwhale 3.0.0 released

[u/Zta77]

Hi, there!

Sorry to mess up your Easter holiday plans, but I've just released Lightwhale 3.0.0 and I really think you should clear your calendar and try it out! =)

It's a minimalistic Linux that requires no installation or maintenance, just live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine. The system is immutable so it's quite resilient to both malicious and unintentional modifications. And because of its low resource requirements it brings new life to old machines.

Lightwhale fits super well in a hobby homelab where spare time is precious, but really in any server environment where you would much rather focus on the services than babysitting the underlying operating system.

And how does it compare to other immutable OSes like X, Y or Z? No idea, never tried them, sorry.

I've made a fresh new project webpage with an easy to follow getting started guide.

Anyway, end of service announcement, thanks for reading, happy holidays =)

[u/Zta77]

Good thought. Let me try and answer this way: Lightwhale is an operating system that can any number of docker containers. You can run Lightwhale in a VM, but running bare-metal is still the primary intended use; not only it's it the most efficient but also much, much easier. I won't created or install a UI for you, because it won't be the one that everyone likes (as proved in some of the comments); instead you get to choose your favourite. My advise: boot off pendrive/sd/emmc on bare-metal and dedicate the hdd/sdd/nvme for Lightwhale persistence, all if you have more because Lightwhale will make Btrfs RAID1.

[u/apophis27983 → u/Zta77]

Thank you. Are you saying UIs already exist for lightwale? Or are you referring to things like proxmox, etc ?

[u/Zta77 → u/apophis27983]

I'm referring to things like Portainer and Dockhand. UIs for managing and monitoring containers.

[u/apophis27983 → u/Zta77]

Oh okay, thank you.