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I don't get the title. Linux isn't dead. Containers, as RedHat loves to say in their marketing material, _are_ Linux. What is dying is the common ground upon w

I don't get the title. Linux isn't dead. Containers, as RedHat loves to say in their marketing material, _are_ Linux. What is dying is the common ground upon which Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems used to exist, but that's been on the horizon forever with systemd choosing to use new Linux features over portability. You are always picking an ecosystem alongside your operating system. If you don't like how constrained it is, maybe you need to either work on improving it or jump ship. This just seems very unproductive.

bshipp 5y ago
Moreover, I'd argue that containers are responsible for an explosion of open source activity. In the span of half an hour I can spin up a half dozen different open source approaches to a problem and check out their implementations to see which is closest to the solution I am looking for, and then tweak and submit pull requests from there. I don't have to spend hours getting each one to compile and solve compatibility errors just to find out I don't like how it actually works. When I blow away the unwanted containers there is no crap left on my system, no script changing my network behaviors or cron tasks. It's like it was never there. I have no idea how people can have a problem with a system like that. What a time to be alive.