On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 13:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
(For the innocent bystanders, we've decided to use fedora-desktop
list
for development communication
around https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cha
nges/WorkstationOstree , so you'll see some more or less mundane stuff
go by here - if you're not interested, just ignore it. Better than
chasing things via private mail or yet-another-list, I believe).
Here's a first status update of sorts for the atomic workstation effort
(I'm afraid this name will stick if we don't come up with something
else soon, I'm already used to it).
Can you please call it something like "rpm-ostree workstation"? There's
quite a significant distinction between the rpm-ostree mechanism for
constructing an OS, and the "Atomic host" concept. AIUI, *one* of the
essential properties of an "Atomic host" is that it be built by rpm-
ostree, but *another* essential propert of an "Atomic host" is that it
consist of (or at least contain) a specific set of components, which a
Workstation-on-rpm-ostree most likely would not. Quote:
"The core of Project Atomic is the Project Atomic Host. This is a
lightweight operating system that has been assembled out of upstream
RPM content. It is designed to run applications in Docker containers."
http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/introduction/
basically it seems to me that the definition of an Atomic Host is at
least "an OS built with rpm-ostree that includes systemd, Docker and
Kubernetes", but 'lightweight' can be read as implying that it
shouldn't include very much at all *beyond* that (which would mean a
Workstation would not qualify).
Unless this new Workstation effort is specifically intended to always
meet the definition of an "Atomic Host", *as well as* being a Fedora
Workstation, I don't think it should be called Atomic Workstation.
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