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Containerization. Similar to Project Atomic, CoreOS or RancherOS. The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or

• georgyo 11y ago
  It's not bloated, its enterprise!
• frostmatthew 11y ago
  > The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB The ISO supports three installations (micro, minimal, full) see page 10 of https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/getting_started_with_photon_on_vmware_fusion.pdf https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/getting_started...
• cbd1984 11y ago
  Unless we're just using "bloated" as a snarl term, it has to mean "too big for what it's being used for", which is distinct from "too big for my preferred way of solving the problem". For example, most editors are larger than ed. However, ed can't support the same kinds of workflow that most other editors can. Therefore, those other editors are not bloated because ed is smaller: ed can't do the same jobs. So, is it 992 MB because it does a different job, or is it 992 MB because they didn't care about size?
  • frostmatthew 11y ago
    > So, is it 992 MB because it does a different job, or is it 992 MB because they didn't care about size? The ISO is 992MB because it includes three different installations (micro, minimal, full).
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > The unfortunate side is that it's a 992MB iso in comparison to a 224MB Debian installation or even a 20MB RancherOS install An ISO for a distribution is often bigger than a typical install, since it includes packages which may not be included in any particular installation. 992MB ISO isn't ridiculously large; the question is whether the typical installs recommended for various uses are unreasonably large for their uses.