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

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 02:33:31PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I meant *awareness of/concerns with that tech* isn't something
we necessarily want to push onto end-users.


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