The future of the OS

Viktor Farcic: I have the impression that many OSes, apart from being Docker containers, made us question quite a few things, such as do we even need Ubuntu and Red Hat?

Bret Fisher: That's the distribution issue. The Linux distributions don't want to hear the fact that they're becoming less relevant, but the truth is that they are becoming less relevant. I have no doubt that several of them will succeed in making themselves more relevant in the container space, and that they'll come up with tools that will make it worth me using Ubuntu to run containers instead of choosing something else. To an extent, it's already true today because I would choose one over the other simply because it comes with a more modern kernel that's going to work better with Docker. If you've got a five-year-old kernel that's still on the 3 series, I know I'm not going to prefer you just because I now have to go and update the kernel...