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Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > To me, it appears that some forward looking folks have forked |
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> > (stolen the best parts?) gentoo, made some fundamental |
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> > (long overdue changes) and are > > all about creating a |
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> > source_to_cluster platform. (hmmmm, vaguely sounds |
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> > familiar...scratching head). It is a natural evilution for linux to |
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> > take; or are we going to embrace some much needed change |
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> > (new ideas) into gentoo? |
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> I have no idea if CoreOS is Gentoo-derived, but it is very much a |
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> special-purpose distro. The whole concept is that you put all the |
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> value-add in the containers, and then you just want a really standard |
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> and lightweight distro to host your containers in. Maybe you run |
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> CentOS in one container, and Gentoo in another container, and Debian |
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> in another container. |
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Your first points are understood; and centos appear to be focused on the |
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commercial "cloud" mentality of don't buy hareware, rent containers |
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from us crowd. That, to me, is a fool's path. |
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What I'm hoping for is that with the (gentoo) past of revolving devs, |
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Hasufell ideas for distributed development by reducing the gentoo core; |
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Flameyes takedown of tinderbox, my pursuit of clustering and many other |
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issues (pid1) all seem to inidcate that many distros are fundamentally |
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examining their path(s) forward. So, I think gentoo can have a minimize |
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version that achieves what CoreOS is doing, but it is gentoo-bare-metal |
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centric. I think Gentoo can robustly support systemd and openrc, containers |
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and other key areas and new technologies, in a fundamentally |
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unique way. |
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I do think a fundamental "update" to the entire gentoo environment is a |
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healthy ares for discussion. I do appreciate your insights on coreOS. I see |
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it as a minimized embedded effort to bring resources into a cluster that is |
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exclusively controlled by the owner. I have "zero" interest in the "cloud" |
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as beside being a very dumb idea for too many reasons to innumerate, it |
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removes folks from gaining knowledge of direct hardware experiences. |
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I do love the way the "cloud" vendors find and collect up the very best |
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ideas. I hate how the "cloud" vendors want to offer those best ideas, |
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as a transient benefit via time-rented binaries. |
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I strongly believe we are at a nexus (a vergence in the force) as many |
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new technologies are converging very rapidly. Call it what you like, |
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but, we are at the crossroads of some very unique opportunites, imho. |
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If we had a gentoo cluster right now, something like tinderbox would |
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have been running there all along. YMMV. |
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James |