[s_baby]

>What I want from something like CoreOS is a stripped-down container host that will host stripped-down app containers. I want to package my app in the most-stripped-down fashion possible and deploy it on this stripped-down container host.

If that's all you want then use Ubuntu Server.

[chrissnell]

That's not stripped down nearly enough for my tastes. I'm talking about the absolute bare minimum to make an app fully function.

[justincormack]

Working on a scripting interface to Linux designed so you can configure everything internally to your application (ie it can run as the init process) with no significant dependencies (you can statically link it)[1]. Its not finished yet, but you can configure network interfaces, routing etc. Needs some more examples, build scripts etc...

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall

[sciurus]

Have you tried https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/jeos-and-vmbuilder... ?

[s_baby]

The minimum install has ~4 processes running. You can only get so much more bare then that.