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blixtra

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About blixtra

CEO @ Amutable Former founder & CEO @ Kinvolk; acquired by Microsoft. Initiated Flatcar Container Linux and the Headlamp Kubernetes UI. Also initiated the Cloud Native Rejekts and All Systems Go! conferences, latter of which I still organize.

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    1. We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue. 2. Given the team, it should be quite obvious there will be a Linux-based OS involved. Our aims are global but we certain…

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    As per the announcement, we’ll be building this over the next months and sharing more information as this rolls out. Much of the fundamentals can be extracted from Lennart’s posts …

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    Hi, Chris here, CEO @ Amutable. We are very excited about this. Happy to answer questions.

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    If you want to know more about Varlink, Lennart Poettering gave a talk about it at All Systems Go! last year. https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-276-varlink-now-/...

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    I’ve now had 2 IONIQ 5s stolen in Berlin, the last a couple months ago. Each seemingly using a keyless access hacking device. That’s enough for me to not see a Hyundai or Kia in my…

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    We, the Headlamp project, don't make any claims about being state-of-the-art as that's hard to define. But we do think Headlamp ranks high among having the best user experience and…

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    Comment #35512605

    Flatcar is a host OS to run containers. It is not a base OS to build containers.

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    Comment #35512565

    The update server supports the Omaha protocol, is called Nebraska and is available here under an Apache license: https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska Our team hosts the public serve…

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    Thanks for dropping the mic, I'll kindly pick it up. I'm the initiator of the Flatcar Container Linux project and former CEO of Kinvolk. Thus, I'm rather knowledgeable about the pr…

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    This is incorrect. It’s an immutable OS. But containers can be started and stopped as much as you want. It’s the sole purpose of Flatcar.

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    Comment #35504409

    This might help you: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/502

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    I'll answer my own question after doing some more digging. It seems that as the columnar code is a self-contained PostgreSQL extension, you're only using the API which would be fin…

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    The project looks very interesting. But I had a look at the license of the Citus source code and it appears to be under an AGPL license and I didn't see an exception for the part o…

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    Comment #24346168

    CoreOS lives on as Flatcar Container Linux. https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/12831024012520980... It's a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement.

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    I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. But Flatcar Container Linux is completely open source. In fact, everything we do at Kinvolk is. We do not build open-core products. For exa…

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    Chris from Kinvolk here. Happy to see you're having success with Flatcar. We, of course, agree that CoreOS Container Linux was a huge success. The uptake that we've seen in Flatcar…