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FTL: A new operating system for clouds

202 points · 77 comments · romac

  1. IshKebab · · focus · HN ↗
    Is this a unikernel? Your ASCII art diagram is broken.
    1. convolvatron · · focus · HN ↗
      having looked at the briefly, is really a kernel that's meant to take system calls. I think the unikernel terminology is kinda broken. it's explicitly pared down to talk to a hypervisor rather than supporting a lot of hardware drivers. is a unikernel something you link in like a library? then its not. is a unikernel something that's intended to support a single process? then sure.
    2. boguscoder · · focus · HN ↗
      Fwiw diagram renders OKay in Brave on iOS
    3. monocasa · · focus · HN ↗
      It's an exokernel. It's kind of like if you modified a hypervisor specifically for running unikernels instead of classic VMs.
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