Brian Proffitt - Ignite OSCON 2014

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Operating systems remain the foundation for innovation even as virtualization and containers shift where software lives; containers are mostly awesome but do not remove OS complexity. Project Atomic pursues an OS-centric stack using RPM os3, SE Linux, cockpit and kubernetes to make updates, security and deployment practical at scale. Examples range from local physics labs teaching fundamentals to national projects like India’s Mars orbiter, showing how platform-level work unlocks bigger breakthroughs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:35Brief History
3. 0:51Operating Systems
4. 1:04OS centric world
5. 1:18Developers love OS
6. 2:07Virtualization and cloud
7. 2:22Containers
8. 2:53Who cares
9. 3:03Innovation is key
10. 3:36Scale

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