It’s not a full-blown distribution; it doesn’t distribute third-party software. Instead, it allows application authors to build their own distribution (at which

It’s not a full-blown distribution; it doesn’t distribute third-party software. Instead, it allows application authors to build their own distribution (at which point “appliance” is a more fitting word than “distribution”). Updates are easy to fully automate with gokrazy (and I’ve been using that mechanism for a year at this point) because assembling a new image and installing it over the network is just one simple command. New kernel and firmware versions are provided automatically once they are verified to boot on real hardware. There is no maintenance aspect in the actual installations (i.e. you don’t need to SSH into them, ran commands to update, etc.) — the root file system is read-only, and an update overwrites it completely. Unless the applications you want to use with gokrazy introduce state, gokrazy defaults to being stateless. Hope that clarifies things, let me know if you have further questions.