Atomic Workstation (Was: Re: Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Sept-02)

[Sébastien Wilmet]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 12:36:15PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> 
> > - What are the next steps for Atomic Workstation?
> 
> A decoder ring and a flow chart.

Some links that may help:

http://paul.frields.org/2015/04/02/fedora-under-construction/

Planning for an "Atomic Workstation":
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-July/012567.html

http://videos.guadec.org/2015/Playing%20with%20apps%20in%20the%20sandbox/

There are also videos from the DevConf and Flock.

Some documentation:

Introduction to Linux Containers:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1353593

https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-atomic-getting-started

I agree that it's not easy to grasp all of that directly, maybe you can
try Docker or xdg-app (see how a container is built) to see how it works
in practice. Once you're convinced about the benefits of containers, the
Atomic Host is the next step.

Cheers,
Sébastien