On 22/7/19 10:40 pm, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
So in a nut shell this is taking dockerization/ containerization and making it more for the every day Linux user instead of the HPC user?
I don't think this goes as far as containers with isolation, as I think that's not what they're trying to do. But it does seem they're thinking along those lines.
It would be interesting to have a distro built around such a setup.
I think this is targeting cross-distro applications. With all the duplication of libraries, etc, a distro using it would be quite bulky.
Also may you have a similar security as containers have, whereby when a vulnerability is found and patched in an application or library you end up with lots of people out there still running the vulnerable version.
This is why distros tend to discourage "vendoring" of libraries as that tends to fossilise vulnerabilities into an application whereas if people use the version provided in the distro the maintainers only need to fix it in that one package and everyone who links against it benefits.
All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
