Looks like an attempt to create an alternative to the Linux kernel that is single process and has no users (check their github at
https://github.com/nanovms/nanos and related
https://github.com/nanovms/ops).
There may be some value to that, but things like CoreOS and Project Atomic make that value narrow.
Their approach is designed around a single-process approach that isn't common for modern server systems, including in containerized designs.
The NanoVM approach requires a full VM as well, which provides more cross-process isolation, but also dramatically increases overhead.
Even the simplest system usually requires at least a couple daemon processes to handle things like log shipping or process monitoring. Sometimes other containers can fill those roles, but that doesn't work if each process is a full VM, rather than a container.
They seem to be doing well making this open-source (Apache 2.0), but it's not clear if the company is committed to remaining entirely on an open-development path.
Overall it seems somewhat niche, and they may find their business plan is not as effective as they hope.
On 2022-09-13 11:12 PM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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> Hello, Has anyone ever heard of this project?What is the potential?thanks,Greg
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