Projects in the topic kiwi
The KIWI Image System provides a complete operating system image solution for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as for virtualisation systems

Better support for Chromebooks Chromebooks do have very limited hardware in terms of storage and RAM. But it is still the cheapest solution to a truly open source notebook, as it allows to replace its coreboot based bootloader with your own coreboot and payload (f.e. Tiano Core or Seabios).

[kiwi generated] appliances, containers or any kind of image suffer from reoccuring problems like left over log files or UUIDs, e.g. /etc/machine-id