Heh, good on you for digging deeper. I think ultimately, the two were developed pretty much independently (Atomic and ContainerLinux), one from ChromeOS, and th

Heh, good on you for digging deeper. I think ultimately, the two were developed pretty much independently (Atomic and ContainerLinux), one from ChromeOS, and the other from Fedora / RHEL. They both prove the idea of a small container only os with atomic updates is a solid design to build a container orchestration system (k8s/openshift) ontop of. I'll still stand by the gist of my original comment though in that CoreOS was a thing before Atomic and they had a working P.O.C. before ostree was used to build an entire distro (such as atomic). Either way, we both learned something new so net win.