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The Incredible Shrinking Operating System

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39 pointsjsnell11 comments

Extremely annoying to view. Please show the entire slides at once, or at least have an option for this.

If it is important to show them one part at a time, please indicate how many steps there are on this slide, so that I can press next quickly to skip the "animation" without risking skipping to the next slide.

Can't comment on the content as I was too annoyed with the UX to read past a few slides.

For the future viewer, the introduction stops at http://jonescape.com/tisos/#/26, then you get the important names and links (up until ~50)

> "Can't comment on the content as I was too annoyed with the UX to read past a few slides"

Then just don't comment at all.

Someone generously put a slide deck of their talk online. A deck that was actually designed to be delivered by the author, probably while standing next to them, at an event. Obviously, it's going to be slightly out of context for people who come across it on the internet (esp with no video/audio to accompany it).

If people wrote their slides for the internet first, imagine how boring all the conference talks would be.

Can't say I disagree about the format of the slides. Subsequent sharing wasn't really a primary consideration; it was only intended as a tool to assist me in my presentation. I will see if I can convert it to something a little more standalone-consumable. Of course, it will still be missing the extemporaneous talk that was intended to be the actual presentation, so it will still surely be somewhat lacking.

Thanks for the critique!

I would argue that "It works on my box" is actually a benefit in some cases, since it exposes the fact that the code doesn't work on all machines and should be altered or changed to fix that. If all of the people in the development team have exactly the same hardware, OS, programs, etc. then that problem could still be present, but because it isn't found it could leak to production code.

If each individual's computing environment has diverged, then there is at least more of a chance of finding such problems before they get to production code.

An example of the kind of divergence I'm speaking of would be varying jdk or libraries versions; where there is no expectation that all these deviations would be supported. These concerns are encapsulated in the container.

Unfortunately I got frustrated with the presentation and gave up before figuring out the point. Seems to be a something about an ocaml kernel with containers on top.

It's about unikernels, where a small kernel, a single application and a limited set of service (ideally just what the application itself needs) are compiled to a single consolidated binary running on a barebones virtualisation host (e.g. Xen).

The most well-known one does seem to be MirageOS[0], an OCaml unikernel. See http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628 for a paper on Mirage, though the broad strokes would be applicable to any unikernel (and a list thereof is provided in Table 2).

If you followed Thomas Leonard's entries on porting 0install to OCaml, he subsequently posted a few entries on playing with mirage[1]

[0] https://mirage.io

[1] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/07/28/my-first-unikernel/ with discussions[2][3]

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109485

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2c1soi/my_firs...

Doesnt work on mobile?(at least no luck for me).

ATM machine... cmon man.

For everyone else, start here and your annoyance level will drop CONSIDERABLY, and you won't miss anything: http://jonescape.com/tisos/#/9

Relevant wiki page for those who are finding it difficult to follow the slides: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Unikernels

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