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1. We are confident we have a very robust path to revenue.

2. Given the team, it should be quite obvious there will be a Linux-based OS involved.

Our aims are global but we certainly look forward to playing an important role in the European tech landscape.

As per the announcement, we’ll be building this over the next months and sharing more information as this rolls out. Much of the fundamentals can be extracted from Lennart’s posts and the talks from All Systems Go! over the last years.

Hi, Chris here, CEO @ Amutable. We are very excited about this. Happy to answer questions.

If you want to know more about Varlink, Lennart Poettering gave a talk about it at All Systems Go! last year. https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-276-varlink-now-/...

I’ve now had 2 IONIQ 5s stolen in Berlin, the last a couple months ago. Each seemingly using a keyless access hacking device. That’s enough for me to not see a Hyundai or Kia in my future anytime soon. And I very much liked the IONIQ 5. But if I can’t keep one more than 2 years, what’s the point? I’ve lost all trust in those companies, upgrade or not.

We, the Headlamp project, don't make any claims about being state-of-the-art as that's hard to define. But we do think Headlamp ranks high among having the best user experience and believe the fact that we're a 100% open-source project is a huge plus compared to some other projects in the space.

I think one area that we are rather different than other projects is that Headlamp is not only focused on end-users but also for teams looking to build their own Kubernetes UX by leveraging the Headlamp plugin system. Our thinking is that this will foster broader community participation and make Headlamp the most viable project in the space.

If you find that there is anything missing please file an issue and we'll consider it: https://github.com/headlamp-k8s/headlamp/issues/new

Flatcar is a host OS to run containers. It is not a base OS to build containers.

The update server supports the Omaha protocol, is called Nebraska and is available here under an Apache license: https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska

Our team hosts the public server, but any Flatcar user can run Nebraska themselves and point their nodes to that.

Thanks for dropping the mic, I'll kindly pick it up.

I'm the initiator of the Flatcar Container Linux project and former CEO of Kinvolk. Thus, I'm rather knowledgeable about the project and was involved in most decisions.

The controversy you speak of is very new to me. If you could point to any references, I'd love to be aware of them.

Firstly, there was nothing "hacked" out of CoreOS. Flatcar is literally the CoreOS Container Linux repos forked and carried on as is. Once the CoreOS EOL was reached we started updating the stale packages. That's it. Any further updates are what any distro would do in the course of maintenance to remain modern and relevant.

Secondly, anything that was previously termed the "Pro" version is now just available in the standard version. So there is no difference. To my knowledge, the project doesn't even produce any Pro versions any longer and I don't think there are even any references to it in our docs. But even when we did have a Pro version, all the work we did was done in the open and was in our source repositories. We just didn't release public builds of those.

Unlike CoreOS, we also developed* and open sourced the update server. It's called Nebraska and available here under an Apache license. https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska

With regard to a license matrix, you can find all licenses for each release in the respective release directory. For example this one: https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/current/f...

If you do find anything that is not 100% open source, let me know and I'll follow up to make sure that's corrected.

I'm happy your excited about your project. But I think you'll fine it's better in the open source space to compete on merit and form relationships rather than tear down other projects and the work of the people behind the projects.

* based on the Core Roller project: https://github.com/coreroller/coreroller

This is incorrect. It’s an immutable OS. But containers can be started and stopped as much as you want. It’s the sole purpose of Flatcar.

This might help you: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/502

I'll answer my own question after doing some more digging. It seems that as the columnar code is a self-contained PostgreSQL extension, you're only using the API which would be fine as there is no linking involved.

The project looks very interesting. But I had a look at the license of the Citus source code and it appears to be under an AGPL license and I didn't see an exception for the part of the code that you're including in Hydra. FWIU, AGPL code is not compatible with including in Apache code, although the opposite is compatible. So, I'd be interested to know if I'm understanding this wrong or if there is some license exception I'm not seeing.

CoreOS lives on as Flatcar Container Linux. https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/12831024012520980... It's a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. But Flatcar Container Linux is completely open source. In fact, everything we do at Kinvolk is. We do not build open-core products.

For example, we've gone a step further than CoreOS did and have a fully open-sourced update server, Nebraska (https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska). We also generate a list of contents and licenses for each build. Here is an example from the most recent stable: https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/2512.2.1/...

Chris from Kinvolk here. Happy to see you're having success with Flatcar. We, of course, agree that CoreOS Container Linux was a huge success. The uptake that we've seen in Flatcar usage, especially since the CoreOS EOL date on May 26th, has been extraordinary. So from what we a can see, the market is there for a minimal Linux for containers and and we're happy to continue filling that need with Flatcar.

Wow, thanks for the nice words! I'll make sure Alban sees them. :)

Currently for the stable and beta channels that is true for now. Of course that changes in May when we fully take over maintenance. But for the alpha channel, and experimental edge channel, we have already diverged with updated packages.

But, yes, in the beginning we simply removed the CoreOS trademark similar to how CentOS removes the RHEL trademark. But very different from CentOS, we knew from the start that the upstream would eventually go away and all maintenance would be carried by Kinvolk and other contributors.

Flatcar Container Linux is a drop-in replacement for CoreOS Container Linux which in my mind (I conceived the fork) makes it more than "an (almost) equivalent alternative". You can literally update straight into Flatcar from CoreOS using the standard update process. See https://docs.flatcar-linux.org/os/update-from-container-linu...

Most of our Flatcar Container Linux users run Kubernetes. It's really an ideal match for a minimal container OS.