Microservices 101: The good, the bad and the ugly (ZDNet)

There is, but it's not going to be easily usable in a manner that is suitable for a workstation or desktop. People are working on sandboxing/containerizing desktop applications, but desktop requirements are always significantly higher then individual servers.

> erm? Atomic is for running Docker containers. I'm referring to user-facing stuff like evince, firefox, libreoffice, gimp, etc.

What on earth does it have to do with 'Microservices'? Regardless, the atomic hosts are very stripped down. You are not going to have to worry about firefox vulnerabilities.

This problem has had a lot more work put into solving it on the mobile platforms like iOS and Android, to prevent end-users from destroying their phones when installing third-party software, by heavily sandboxing the apps and providing much more restricted APIs for them to communicate with one another and with the OS. This style of user-facing software deployment is no longer experimental but is now a proven standard, unfortunately the number of man-hours it will take to shoe-horn existing software into the sandboxed app-store model means that we are years away from having this be the default on traditional Linux distros.

ChromeOS is probably the leading Linux distro here, one of the few that sells significant amounts of hardware to the non-IT-employee market.

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