openSUSE Announces The Kubic Project For Designing Next-Gen Container OS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: openSUSE Announces The Kubic Project For Designing Next-Gen Container OS

The openSUSE project has announced "Kubic" as a new initiative around making their Linux operating system more container-friendly...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=openSUSE-Kubic

[starshipeleven]

Nice, maybe in this OS Steam does not break.

[profoundWHALE]

I wonder when we'll start seeing more Exokernel designs, and Unikernels built with Mirage OS where a host VM will run the unikernels separate from each other.

Nice, maybe in this OS Steam does not break.

Solus OS has no issues with steam for me. Just installed through the gui and done.

[polarathene]

They'd be using different container formats I guess for headless services and GUI apps? Would be interesting to see how this pans out, a little similar to that OS that runs everything in VMs categorized in coloured windows I guess?

[starshipeleven]

They'd be using different container formats I guess for headless services and GUI apps? Would be interesting to see how this pans out, a little similar to that OS that runs everything in VMs categorized in coloured windows I guess?

You mean Qubes? https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/

[stiiixy]

Damn, this is all nice stuff. My brains starting to mush as a dabbler trying to perceive a lot of these VM and containerised techs.

[liam]

Unikernels built with Mirage OS where a host VM will run the unikernels separate from each other.

That looks EXACTLY like an exokernel implementation with the vm being the hardware multiplexer. What's the difference?

[profoundWHALE]

That looks EXACTLY like an exokernel implementation with the vm being the hardware multiplexer. What's the difference?

Answer: not much of a difference.

[polarathene]

You mean Qubes? https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/

Yep that's the one I remember. It'd be interesting to see how openSUSE approaches it. I like to run QEMU/KVM for several VMs some with hardware passthrough, not sure how well that'll go if QEMU gets containerized or other tooling that intergrates with it like virsh/libvirt and virt-manager(GUI).

[liam]

Answer: not much of a difference.

I'm curious about the remaining difference, but your answer tells me enough.