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Atomic doesn't predate CoreOS. CoreOS = 2013 Atomic host = 2014
by alexandre_m 9y ago
Atomic doesn't predate CoreOS.
CoreOS = 2013
Atomic host = 2014
- audidude 9y agoOSTree (the foundation for it) was built as part of GNOME Continuous in 2011.
- alexandre_m 9y agoAbsolutely. But Atomic was architected as containers infrastructure and is/was a direct competitor to CoreOS and other lightweight container OSes.
- audidude 9y agoIt might appear that way to people that weren't involved in the history, but a lot of it was based on ideas learned from stateless linux, circa 2004. People in the desktop team had been working on read-only root OS's for a long time, and it was only at a certain point that RH management bought off on forming a product/spin. But to say that work only started once Atomic was a thing would be inaccurate. It's probably fair to say that ChromeOS/CoreOS lit a match under some upper management though.
- SEJeff 9y agoYup, what I sort of alluded to in my comment above re: GNOME OS, however I was saying CoreOS the distro predates rpm-ostree. Colin was talking about some of these ideas in Berlin circa 2011 at the desktop summit (isn't that where we met btw? I forget).