OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environments
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HN comment orderI love it. We spent 30 years getting preemptive-multitasking working, and it is such a giant fragile pain in the a, that it is easier to just virtualize the whole damn computer rather than making different software play nice together (maybe run well together is more apropos). We have now come full circle. People want DOS. I have officially lived "long enough." Not too long, mind you, just long enough.
This is definitely a developing trend... seems to be catching on that most server applications are more or less single programs that just use the OS as an emulation layer so that applications don't need to come with their own low level drivers. Quite overkill if you're just trying to run java, node, ruby, whatever We're probably not too far off from java-as-the-os, node-as-the-os, etc. Substituting a hypervisor for Linux or whatever other OS you're using as the emulation layer…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 266
- Total comments
- 93
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-15 | OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual-machines | gaoprea | 3 | 0 |
| 2014-09-14 | OSv, a new operating system for the cloud | miralabs | 7 | 0 |
| 2015-04-23 | OSv, a new operating system for the cloudFirst breakout | xj9 | 101 | 29 |
| 2020-12-13 | OSv – Linux binary compatible unikernel for virtualized environmentsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | peter_d_sherman | 155 | 64 |