The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System
…which runs on top of Linux
Well, yes and no. It depends on whether you call the Linux kernel as what makes Linux the OS or not.
For any operating system there are the kernel components and user space components. The GUI in any operating system is going to be user space.
They also suggest it’s a “minimalized” Linux microkernel. I kinda agree with this approach, why re-invent the wheel when you can cherry-pick the parts of the existing Linux kernel to make your foundations. The huge caveat in my mind is, the scheduler of modern OS’ is what they were complaining about most. I bet the scheduler is one of the things they took from the Linux kernel.
As for the rest of the project. I don’t think there’s enough meat in this article to say much, and the very limited free version seems a bit too limited to make a good review of how useful it would be.
I’ll wait until I’m told I need to port X aspect of my job to DBOS to see if it became a thing or not. :P
i hate clickbait so much. Are there extensions for firefox that change clickbait back to regular titles? I heard something like this exists. Sounds like i should use it.
You might be thinking of this extension, which is only for YouTube, though: https://dearrow.ajay.app
Ah! Thanks. That might be it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-2-butt-plus/
Would have worked a charm for this particular article
Summary:
Michael Stonebraker and Matei Zaharia have created a new operating system called DBOS that uses a distributed database as its core instead of the traditional Linux kernel. They realized that the large scale of modern cloud computing made operating system state management a database problem. DBOS uses FoundationDB as its initial database kernel and allows services to be written in SQL. It provides benefits like time travel debugging and a smaller attack surface compared to Linux. If successful, DBOS could compete with serverless platforms and even replace traditional operating systems.
I was curious as to whether this was proprietary or not, but code for some operating system components is available online: https://github.com/DBOS-project
Time will tell as to whether this ends up gaining momentum or not, right now it seems pretty niche… Cloud providers ultimately will need to show interest for this to go anywhere I think
uses a distributed database as its core
This got me quite a little excited at first, but then…
services to be written in SQL.
… the cold shower hit.
Buddy, I just made a post about this a few hours ago here ^^
Why the down votes?
This is stupid. It’s just linux, but running on someone else’s computer.
