These two statements contradict each other. Well, if you read carefully the "we" is operations, and they're just jiggering things around enough to throw the co

These two statements contradict each other. Well, if you read carefully the "we" is operations, and they're just jiggering things around enough to throw the complexities over the wall to development. I'm with you that this (at least for the Core OS case) isn't terribly exciting conceptually. The exciting part is someone is doing the heavy lifting to introduce this level of flexibility into Linux. It brings the highly tailored OS approach to users that haven't had a business case to do all that work in house, and builds the ecosystem around the idea in a way that doesn't happen with one-off implementations.