Scott Lowe of blog.scottlowe.org comments:

In this post, I’m going to provide a very quick introduction to CoreOS. CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind.

CoreOS is built around a number of key concepts/technologies:

Scott Lowe has a great overview of CoreOS and what it means for the lightweight OS distro in the future. When everything is slimming down, OSes must do the same.

Read more at: A Quick Introduction to CoreOS