That's literally what RancherOS does. ls is a container. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. But they take the "cattle not pets" approach pretty much to its l

That's literally what RancherOS does. ls is a container. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. But they take the "cattle not pets" approach pretty much to its logical extreme (I suspect that the company's name arises from this metaphor) It makes ops so liquid and convenient. I love it. To really push this idea (and microkernel) to its logical extreme, it would be cool to see a null-kernel. You have socket drivers, that's it. Everything is either a network call or some sort of IPC. You might still need something to handle paging, though, and obviously your "peripherals" like storage would need to be more conventional in nature.