On 2022-06-24 13:15, Eric Schirra wrote:
And I don't think that will work. Especially suse will not profit from it. At most, it will work for RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch. But not with SUSE. If you look at which companies create rpm packages and then look for which distributions, then it is almost never for Suse. Why should that change with container technology?
Well it will be different because unlike packages where they need to be built for SUSE to work on SUSE, a distro like ALP that is primarily consuming containers should be able to consume most if not all the containers out there, regardless of which distribution they were built for/on. ALP should therefore have a much larger ecosystem of binaries it can consume outside of those built by SUSE, which is certainly a plus.
Last question. Will Tumbleweed remain as it is, or will the container technology (ALP ) also find its way there?
Tumbleweed is already the originator of many ALP technologies (eg. MicroOS, all official openSUSE containers which use TW as their base). I certainly expect TW to continue to be either ahead or matching ALP as it develops.