LinuxKit VS k3OS

Another project that aims to deliver this is Linuxkit (https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit). All the components they ship are written in memory safe languages (usually Go) and run as containers under containerd. You can build a custom image very easily, fully defined as a YAML file. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Docker-the-company maintained https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

LF-Edge EVE project leverages Linuxkit to create custom OSs for Edge Devices which in turn leverages Containers as Lego Blocks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Behind the scenes Docker Desktop for Mac spawns a linuxkit VM with a bit of extra stuff like NFS to enable mounting Mac paths into containers. In the Docker Desktop settings you'll find the current resource assignment for that VM. That is pretty much reserved for docker so that it does not have to compete with MacOS processes for available resources. Source: over 2 years ago

That said... You might want to check out linuxkit. Source: almost 3 years ago

I still don't forgive SUSE for buying Rancher and then unceremoniously killing k3os. They just left the website up and everything, made no announcement, made no attempt to help the community take over, just left the Github repo to rot: https://k3os.io/ Hard to have confidence in SUSE's commitment to another open source operating system side project after that. SUSE's announcement at the time: Like SUSE, Rancher... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago