[colug-432] Unix Is The Last Operating System

[Stephen Potter]

Not quite the step I was talking of having the application completely 
take over the OS, but here's Project Bonneville just announced by VMware 
that allows you to run a container as a first class citizen directly on 
vSphere without having to run under a Linux host.

http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-project-bonneville/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYQ3Bfda5o&feature=youtu.be

What do you think of the idea?

-spp

On 6/17/2015 12:27 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:
>> Of course, there will always be the need for some generic OSes.  I was
>> exaggerating a little when I said no need, but for many major
>> application systems, when does it get to the point to make more sense to
>> write to the hypervisor than to write to a specific OS?
> Have you seen CoreOS or Project Atomic?
>
> https://coreos.com/
> http://www.projectatomic.io/
>