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wmf on July 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM announces $3B research initiative

Or you could keep the convenience while dumping the overhead by using Docker. As a bonus you also get to be cool.

mikepurvis on July 18, 2014 [–]

Docker is still a full Linux kernel. The point of MirageOS is that your app is the kernel.

eru on July 21, 2014 | [–]

For MirageOS, Xen is the kernel.

But Xen is smaller than Linux.

mikepurvis on July 22, 2014 | | [–]

My impression is that typical docker deployments have them sitting on VMs anyway— so it's the worst of both worlds in that scenario.

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