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A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs

FOSDEM 2024 How hard can you cut down Linux if you know it will never run on bare metal? Further than any distro vendor we know of has tried to go. This article is the fourth based on the Reg FOSS desk's talk at FOSDEM 2024. The first part talked about the problem of software bloat, the second about the history of UNIX, and the third about what the inventors of Unix did next: Plan 9. In the previous section of the talk, I covered why Plan 9 wasn't called Unix any more: because its very different...

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