Re: Interesting and maybe relevant article

On 22. april 2015 12:23, Liam Proven wrote:
> "Ubuntu strips a phone OS to the Core
>
> MWC 2015: Take a solid base and add containers
>
> Apr 21, 2015 by Charlie Demerjian"
>
> http://semiaccurate.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-strips-phone-os-core/
>
> Thanks to the meteoric rise in Docker, Linux Containers are big news
> these days. Ubuntu has now launched a new version of its distro which
> replaces conventional packaging systems with containers.
>
> I am wondering if using containers, rather than directories, might [a]
> make Gogo easier to develop and use and also [b] attract some fresh
> attention to the distro? E.g. a slightly architecturally-different
> 64-bit edition...
>

Frankly i find containers on the desktop to be one of two things:

Cloud "devs" that think they have found the hammer to fix all "nails".

DE devs (hello Gnome) that think that users must be protected from 
themselves, or else they will soil the devs pristine ivory tower.