Hi, On 2/17/23 01:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
I hope this synopsis appearing in The Register today is wrong about what ALP is:
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... SUSE's next-generation OS, codenamed Advanced Linux Platform or ALP, aims to increase reliability by moving beyond simple snapshots by making the root file system read-only. The only way to install software, including updates, is during a reboot, using a new command, transactional-update ...
If you have a cluster of hosts running lots of containers, this should not be too intrusive ... It's less convenient for a non-clustered machine ...
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Let's start with the simple things: ALP -> Adaptable Linux Platform but fair enough we can give Liam a break for mixing up the names. That said, unfortunately there still is the idea that "Platform" is the same as "what gets built from the platform". I repeat the idea of ALP is that we can build many things from the same platform and those things may look very different. And that is being done already today -Micro has a read-only filesystem but TW or Leap do not. Other than the micro version of whatever gets built from ALP we don't really have a strong concept on what those things look like. It is still anticipated that the first product that gets built from ALP is *-Micro and we all already know pretty much what that looks like. Then there is the effort Simon and others worked on over hackweek and shared recently. That goes more along the lines of what many people on this list are used to, probably. Last but not least there is no law that says that openSUSE has to have the equivalent of whatever SUSE decides to sell as a product. It is a community project and as the hackweek project showed a bit of personal interest and effort go a long way. Later, Robert
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/bulletproof_linux/
Sounds more like Alf, that furry creature with a long nose that had a citcom that was so annoying you couldn't watch it. Sounds like attempting to install software on ALP will be about the same...
How many users on this list are reading this e-mail on a cluster? Apparently, ALP will be a cluster ....
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