Am 24.01.24 um 04:58 schrieb Ben T. Fender:
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:54:34 +1030 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> :
On 1/23/24 23:45, Ben T. Fender wrote:
I guess you're right, the infos I've read about Leap-16 somehow made me think it used some form of containerization.
That is understandable, the early ALP announcements were about containerisation only, but that has long since changed.
It's still part of the novum, actually the only good one for my money and they can call it whatever they like, I call it whatever I like. I happen to prefer flatpacking as a generic term but regardless of placarding it goes well with my idea that OS'es are just plug-ins for my favorite apps. Then there's this 'immutable' horror meaning read-only like live systems on DVD (a kind of language everyone would understand). Cloud is another favorite of mine, I call it an orchestrated attack on people's data security which in my book comes with physical access denial instead of trust in encryption or whatever else for the simple reason that if the word trust is in your dictionary than it sure as puck ain't no security dictionary.
Last century(!) I tried out of curiosity Linux (S.U.S.E. then), moved to it from Win95 sometime around the beginning of this millennium and have been using it since then almost exclusively. I'm really curious about the promise of an immutable system and whether containerizing programmes I use (if any) will have a negative impact on how I use my computer. So, bring on Leap 16 in whatever form, I trust that the volunteers at openSUSE have no interest in delivering a distribution they are not committed to. Peter