Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
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Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#2What does un-distro mean?
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#3Seems to have a confusing lack of "getting started" documentation. On the plus side, I now know what the world's smallest octopus is, so the important stuff is covered!
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#4What does un-distro mean?
Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro.
Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4
Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1].
[1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-wolfi-the-f... (last section)
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#5What does un-distro mean?
Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro. Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4 Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1]. [1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing…
It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that a it's a Linux distro without the Linux kernel, so it's really an "unLinux distro", or an (un)distro for short.
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#6What does un-distro mean?
Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro. Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4 Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1]. [1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing…
The last section in the link helped, but I have to say, the circle analogy made very little sense to me. Thank you for clarifying nonetheless.
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#7Seems to have a confusing lack of "getting started" documentation. On the plus side, I now know what the world's smallest octopus is, so the important stuff is covered!
I'm thankful that the important stuff is covered , there is helpful documentation over here btw https://edu.chainguard.dev/open-source/wolfi/overview/
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#8Seems to have a confusing lack of "getting started" documentation. On the plus side, I now know what the world's smallest octopus is, so the important stuff is covered!
They should probably have it linked in the readme but this is their getting started guide: https://edu.chainguard.dev/open-source/wolfi/wolfi-with-dock...
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#9Seems to have a confusing lack of "getting started" documentation. On the plus side, I now know what the world's smallest octopus is, so the important stuff is covered!
From my side I'd love to see clear comparison to distroless[1] images, the best info I could find was this Github issue comment[2], although I would expect to find it in https://github.com/wolfi-dev#faq. Or maybe my google-fu failed me :(
[1]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
[2]: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/issues/5507#issuecommen...
Re: Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
#10Not sure an OS created to meet the specific need of VC funded startup, created exclusively by employees of that company should be called a "community Linux".
It's almost the opposite of that in fact.