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

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 02:17:49PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> 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.

Also, to keep from causing more confusion, I've been calling this
"rpm-ostree based Workstation."  Atomic Host is kind of its own thing
and probably a different release cycle than we're interested in.  The
underlying tech is what we care about as far as Workstation is
concerned, but not something we necessarily want to push onto
end-users.

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