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> We should never forget that at the root of containerization is a desire to keep everyones shit sorted. That's been a Unix thing forever. That's literally the
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
> We should never forget that at the root of containerization is a desire to keep everyones shit sorted. That's been a Unix thing forever.
That's literally the point of operating systems: To allow many people to share the resources of one machine without being able to interfere with each other. Modern containers and VMs are just reinventing operating systems, and unfortunately they're doing it on top of existing operating systems rather than building -- you know -- a better operating system.
- zanderwohl 7y agoI have been interested in an OS that would better implement virtualization and containers better, "closer to the hardware." I know most users aren't terribly interested in that sort of thing, but I think a lot of hacker-types would enjoy easily sorting projects into different areas. How nice would it be to easily spin up a couple different machines to test a server-client relationship on the same machine, without a handful of slow VMs? I feel I don't know enough to see the issues with an approach like that, or know why it's not already mainstream.
- celticmusic 7y agoit's known as a "bare metal hypervisor" and is the most commonly used hypervisor. If you look into things like vmware ESXi you'll see it in action. https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html
- zanderwohl 7y agoThanks for the link! Looks to be a little steep learning cliff, but I'll see what I can teach myself.