I don't want to sound overly negative, but attempting to support every useful combination of hardware and drivers, particularly in any kind of supported, certified configuration, ultimately leads back to the same result: just running a real OS.<p>You can look at CoreOS the same way as the Xen hypervisor and VMWare ESX: the more flexible these became (new hardware drivers, supported configurations, etc. etc) the more they began to look like general purpose operating systems. At which point, why not start with one? (Kvm followed the same logic)<p>I'd much rather see the guts of CoreOS available as e.g. a RHEL or Debian package. As it stands, throwing away 20 years of distribution experience just to avoid installing a few files on my server seems far from worth it.