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+Oscar is a full-fat operating system install
+that I can ssh into and do stuff.
+The host operating system (which runs oscar)
+barely has anything installed,
+and runs from a RAM disk.
+Oscar is backed by a magnetic disk.
+
+This uses my
+[toolbox](https://git.woozle.org/neale/toolbox)
+image,
+which provides a basic Alpine shell with an SSH server
+and a few hooks to use Alpine's standard persistence mechanisms.