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>In a few years when it's mature, we'll all have a saner setup to work with. I'm happy you get to work in an environment with no legacy applications that requi
by hueving 11y ago
>In a few years when it's mature, we'll all have a saner setup to work with.
I'm happy you get to work in an environment with no legacy applications that require a specific old operating system but that's not the case for a massive portion of sysadmin jobs.
- kbenson 11y agoFrom a recent post, here's a talk[1] about containers where they use SmartOS (Solaris/IllumOS derivative) to containerize Linux by just implementing the syscall table. The future of hosting legacy apps might be providing legacy interfaces on modern OS's (IMO). 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw
- moonchrome 11y agoWell the legacy app is a solved problem - we have VMs - let them live there and be done with it. Expose the API trough network and call it from anything you want.