There's also this: "Not-OS – NixOS-based OS generator that outputs an OS with 47MB squashfs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679031 https://news.ycomb

There's also this: "Not-OS – NixOS-based OS generator that outputs an OS with 47MB squashfs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679031 https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os For memory constrained VMs and containers based on NixOS... Of course, even that isn't as small as Alpine's absolutely tiny 5MB Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine