[CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

[Mark Haney]

On 08/02/2017 10:57 AM, hw wrote:
>
> It probably makes sense under the assumption that you do pretty much
> everything in one container or another and that it doesn´t bother you
> having to switch between all the containers to do something.  That would
> require something like a window manager turned into a container manager,
> and it goes towards turning away from an operating system to some kind of
> BIOS to run containers and the container-window manager on.  You could 
> strip
> down the BIOS to no more than the functionality needed for that, 
> resulting
> in having less need for different software versions of the platform 
> (BIOS).
>
> Why hasn´t a BIOS like that already been invented?  Or has it?
>
> Since copyright issues were mentioned, please keep in mind that I am now
> the inventor of a container manager that is like a window manager,
> potentially showing programs running in whatever container as windows
> on your screen, bringing them together seamlessly with no further ado, as
> if they were running on the same OS:  A common window manager would 
> show an
> emacs frame besides an xterm; a container-window manager would 
> basically do
> the same, but emacs and xterm would be running in different containers.
>
> OS/2 already had something like that, but it didn´t have containers.
>
> Why hasn´t a container manager like that already been invented? Or has 
> it?
>
> Wouldn´t it be much better being able to do this without needing 
> containers? 

Sure there is such a thing.  It's a tiled console package (tilix is what 
I use).  In all honesty, I wouldn't want Libreoffice running in a 
container and I can't imagine why you'd want an xterm in its own 
container.  Most containers I've built have been RESTful API containers, 
NGINX proxies/web servers, etc.  I spend more time on the container host 
making changes, than in the containers themselves.  If an API change has 
been made, I throw a new container up with that change and test, rarely, 
if ever, do I need access the container directly.  And that's the idea 
behind containers if you ask me.




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Mark Haney
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