Kubernetes, RHEL, and Ubuntu

Viktor Farcic: You mention Kubernetes. Do you think Kubernetes will affect operating systems? Are we going to continue seeing RHEL and Ubuntu dominating the market?

James Turnbull: I don't think so. I personally think the operating system is dead; I don't see a purpose for it. I want to build composable things that just use the system-level resources that I care about, whether they are disk, CPU, or memory. I want to be able to take libraries or middleware from a selection of stuff and then combine those without needing a huge surface area of other materials. I think that we'll see more and more things that are shaped like Alpine and CoreOS, where the operating system is largely a black box, or you're getting a piece of the operating system where you don't configure any of it, as a lot of it's not exposed to you.

I still think that people will want some sort of support. They'll want somebody to be able to talk to...