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by jhart99 2345 days ago
From what I've seen so far, it is a continuation in name only. Many of the things that made CoreOS nice have disappeared like locksmith, and other stuff has been made incompatible for no good reason, for example dropping docker...
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Fedora has preferred podman for a while, it's not unique to Fedora CoreOS. Much of that has to do with Docker's choices.

moby-engine https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=27...

docker https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=51...

podman https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=26...

> have disappeared like locksmith

Locksmith[0] implementation is tightly coupled to the specific update daemon, so it can't be directly re-used outside of Container Linux or without update-engine[1].

Its logic has been ported over to Zincati[2], which performs reboot management on top of rpm-ostree[3].

[0] https://github.com/coreos/locksmith

[1] https://github.com/coreos/update_engine

[2] https://github.com/coreos/zincati

[3] https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree

Last I heard Docker still doesn't support cgroups-v2, 4 years after it was merged into Linux.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...