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> Ubuntu is container linux for me.

What?!?! I'd put OpenVZ'd RHEL a country mile ahead of Ubuntu, and there are better candidates than that (like CoreOS). What's the idea behind Ubuntu's claim to the brand?

> I WANT to install stuff on my host

I'm sure you do, but that means you don't want "container linux". It means you want Linux with containers.

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Maybe he wants his container to be as close as possible to his development machine?

Actually he just wants to install things on the host, which flys in the face of containerise all the things.

YMMV but I think coreos has a good base to support the latter.

Easiest way to accomplish that is to run your dev inside containers... Then it's exactly the same. ;-)

I suspect many already do that. From experience, it's still easier to develop on and deploy to the same container host OS. Ie: Docker on Ubuntu for both is best. You'd be hard pressed to do development on CoreOS/Container Linux.

Why would that matter? A container is a container

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