----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Miller" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 6:38:24 PM > Subject: [atomic-devel] Anyone working on using ProjectAtomic for the desktop? > > Hello all, > This might be a wildly off in the weeds topic but I thought this > was the best place to bring it up. I've recently been shooting the > breeze with Jim Perrin of the CentOS project on IRC about the idea of > running a desktop image from inside a docker container (it works, but > getting it to work as non-root is still evading us, I'm sure we're > missing something silly). > Those conversations kind of lead to the idea of running > ProjectAtomic as a desktop/laptop OS such that the core system is > managed in a stable and atomic fashion via rpm-ostree and applications > run inside of containers (docker, rkt, systemd-nspawn/machinectl, > $whatever) using 'atomic install' as the application lifecycle > mechanism. I'm unsure if the concept of running the desktop in a > container as a super privileged container is the best approach, but it > is one idea. I mostly wanted to bring all this up and talk a little > about the background just to see what others thought and if there's > anything in this space that would offer a reasonably elegant solution > to the question, "how do I run ProjectAtomic as my desktop/laptop OS?"
Along these lines... Trevor Jay mentioned running Atomic as a primary OS on this list last month: https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2015-April/msg00051.html And Jessie Frazelle, one of the Docker engineers, did a talk at Container Camp where she put all sorts of crazy things (LibreOffice, Chrome, some OpenGL based game) into a containers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLZz8cZCzc In her talk, she starts off by saying "...I run containers on my desktop. I don't 'apt-get install' anything..." So I don't think this idea of Atomic as a desktop OS is too far-fetched. It seems like the overall idea of containers on the desktop has traction and it's just a matter of time before we see something available. -Micah > Apologies in advance if I'm just spouting from crazy town and thanks > for humoring me. :) > > -AdamM > >
