Cloud Computing: CoreOS Linux Released as ‘World’s First OS as a Service’
June 30, 2014
Grazed from CIO-Today. Author: Barry Levine.
A Linux distribution that updates itself. That’s the idea behind the new commercial Linux product from CoreOS, called CoreOS Managed Linux. The service will begin at $100 a month for up to 10 servers, and, as co-founder and CEO Alex Polvi told news media, enterprise Relevant Products/Services users should think of the new service "as the last migration they will ever need."
As with other open-source companies that provide additions and services around open-source software Relevant Products/Services, the CoreOS fee is intended to cover fixes, updates and tech support, not the free core software. CoreOS runs from the cloud Relevant Products/Services or can be managed on-premises…
The company described CoreOS Managed Linux as "the world’s first OS as a service," with patches delivered as an ongoing stream of updates. The OS is intended to use 40 percent less RAM than most Linux server Relevant Products/Services installation, and is designed for very large scale Relevant Products/Services deployments…
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