Modularizing Fedora

Posted Mar 18, 2016 14:13 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Modularizing Fedora by NAR
Parent article: Modularizing Fedora

Yes, exactly. Although your caricature is a bit extreme, this is really what everyone asks from operating systems — with the key point being that everyone's idea of what they want to change quickly, what they want to stay stable, and what they don't care about is completely different.

Modularizing Fedora

Posted Mar 18, 2016 14:53 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> everyone's idea of what they want to change quickly, what they want to stay stable, and what they don't care about is completely different

This kind of leads to the idea of containerization of applications with all their dependancies, either with the App model (xdg-app, Android .APK, iOS .app, etc.) or automated virtualization of the entire OS like https://lwn.net/Articles/610067/ so you can mix and match software, at the cost of disk space for all the differing dependancies, without expecting OS distributions to maintain infinite versions forever of every component.