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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @02:07AM (#8686061)

> Wouldn't it be cool if projects like Packer[1] didn't have to exist, because the image format of Virtual Machines was open and documented as an independent standard?

Is what I should have quoted in my reply. Nobody was talking about using one instead of the other. Though, it'd be easy enough to run, for instance, CoreOS from an OVF image to run containers from. Though, I feel like you and I are just stating the obvious at this point. Wouldn't you agree?

Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:41PM (#8685224)

I don't disagree, but OVF is an ANSI[1] & ISO[2] standard. Like you said, Amazon & OpenStack have chosen not to adopt it.

[1] http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+469-20...

[2] http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_det...

Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:03PM (#8685113)

I think it's called OVF[1]. It's just not as widely supported as it probably should be.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format

Re:Jx9: A direct competitor to Lua on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @03:03PM (#5062609)

While the language & feature-set might be a direct competitor to Lua, the license may make it a non-starter for many.

Lua: MIT: can be used in closed source software.

Jx9: Symisc Public License (basically the Sleepycat license): Very similar to the GPL in that all source code using it must also be open source upon distribution. Otherwise, a license must be acquired at some unknown price to use it in commercial software.