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OSTree (the foundation for it) was built as part of GNOME Continuous in 2011.
by audidude 9y ago
OSTree (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).