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Re:Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS by acveilleux on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:14PM (#9447680)
Linux... Buried in there:

> Congratulations! You now a have a brand new 54 MB secure unikernel image including only our application, Java 8 and the Linux kernel!

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Re:Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS by krakensden on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:29PM (#9447795)
If you have a separate runtime & kernel, is it still a unikernel?
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Re:Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS by josephmoniz on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:40PM (#9447873)
Yeah, this appears to be a bit misleading. It sounds as if they're just running the compiled jar as the /sbin/init process. IMO, thats a very lightweight distro but not a unikernel. #NotAnExpert.
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