This is awesome work on the part of the openSuse team! I have always liked the steady improvement openSuse and SuseEL have made over the last 5 years or so. While they are sort of the underdog still (just look at their numbers compared to RH), the fact that at least we have an alternative to RHEL in SEL for when companies require support contracts, is a huge benefit to users. I try not to talk about Canonical for... reasons.<p>As for microOS, I hope that SEL takes it up with a supported version, as I think this sort of "heres a small, minimal OS suited well to being treated as cattle" approach still has lots of mindshare to capture (soorry alpine, I'll stick to gnuland!), and a large part of that mindshare is in corporations. Although, that said, I do find myself pondering nix and guix a lot more lately than just minimal installs. For some cases I know it's a bad idea, but I have settled on rolling release being the better update model for linux when not stopped by business requirements, and the more minimal the install the less likelyhood of rolling release versions having issues, plus that sort of thing should be caught in testing right? Cool stuff, gonna have to give this a space in my vps list.
This is 'almost' what Atomic did, which is now rolled into Fedora CoreOS and related derivatives and Silverblue. The eventual idea was not to rely on btrfs snapshots, so it uses ostree instead.
Does anyone know any VPS providers that are planning to support this? I'm using Linode primarily because they are one of the few providers that provides openSUSE images, but they haven't said anything about supporting MicroOS yet.
Do it seems like a Fedora Silverblue with the architecture and like CoreOS with the goals. That's interesting - I'd like to play with it in the future, but I don't see a feature that would excite me <i>right now</i>.
I know this is going to sound like a typical missing-the-point HN comment (and possibly deserves to end up on n-gate) but - I do hate the trend of 'xxxOS' meaning not an OS but rather a distribution of linux.<p>I think it adds confusion as there are xxxOS projects which are indeed separate OSes and it dilutes the meaning of an 'OS'. Probably the GNU/-prefix crowd find it especially egregious as the work put in to the distribution exists more so around tooling than any kernel-specific aspect.<p>From the name I expected it to be an interesting new microkernel from OpenSUSE (the concept of which surprised me) so I have direct experience of the confusion this naming convention causes :)
I used to work for Suse. During my time there MicroOS was broadly considered to be a joke and abandonware by my coworkers. I worked on the very team developing their k8s solution ( the entire team of which was fired due to the recent acquisition )<p>My recommendation, which is, of course, my personal opinion, is to stay away from MicroOS.