I posted a reply on the original post, so I'll add it here as well:

Yes, SmartOS is indeed very interesting and has been around for many years already. They've done some incredible work to get Docker containers to work on their platform. The purpose of the comparison here is to show some of the Linux OSes that are focused on containers (mainly Docker but also others), and it's never gonna be an exhaustive list. SmartOS could've been on the list as another alternative.

Author here if you have any questions on the content :)

Actually, I'm very curious if you have any opinions on combining OSes and some of the tooling that's been coming out (etcd (without CoreOS), and Consul are two examples that come to my mind).

A lot of these container OS's seem to have so much built-in tooling that it seems "wrong" to consider using extra tooling on top of them.

It's a question I've seen pop up every now and then. If you look at the current distribution landscape in any given enterprise today you'll probably see a standardization on one distribution, with a few exceptions here and there. This is mostly due to the need to have ease of management and the same goes for container OSes. If you mix several of them you're adding on "management tax" for the underlying OSes, even if the containers might be managed by a tool on top of it. Deploying/configuring/managing CoreOS is different than RancherOS which is different than SmartOS, for instance.

I say try a few of them, including the tooling that comes with them, and since the containers look the same and will behave the same on all of them you can easily change your underlying OS (and tooling) in this testing phase. Then try the different tools that can be used on top of them and I'm sure you'll find a mix that works for you :)

I like this... it served well to get my feet wet about what is out there. It would be nice having a chart comparing the pro and cons of those OSs. Maybe in the future?

Thanks! :)

Yeah, this seemed more like a listing of the operating systems than a comparison.

You're right, it's a list of the OSes and some of their strengths. I'd rather not get into a container OS war on "which one is better", as I stated at the beginning of the article it always depends on your needs :)

Thank you! I try to list mostly the pros and not the cons, as missing features might pop up in the future which would make the post less useful.

Great Article. Thanks for writing it! :)

Thank you!

Transfer of IP is not reasonable, as you should still own what you have created.

Granting a perpetual and royalty-free license is very common as can be seen in the Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement: https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

The Apache ICLA states that you still own the copyright of the software and can do what you want with it, they only license it from you and can then use it for the purposes stated in the agreement. It does require you to mention all the patents that you might infringe on, but only if you are aware of them. Otherwise you're pretty much in the clear.

I wouldn't have signed the document mentioned in the article, I think you made the right move.

Ah, that's very interesting, and much simpler! That seems better for both parties. I'll update the post to reflect this.

Thanks for your affirmation, I was feeling like a dummy being the only one that decided not to sign.

Been playing it a bit today, it's REALLY hard now!

Is there any way to turn it off? Deadly reentry was the primary reason why I never got around to installing FAR.

There is a slider in the options menu that you can set to 0 that will turn it off.

Wonderful. I'll certainly try building stuff with heat shields, but I have a feeling I'll have that set somewhere pretty low :)

Thanks!

Just started a new career yesterday after a LONG break. Pretty basic rockets survive reentry pretty easily, especially if you put on some heat shields and caps. These parts might not survive the reentry, but all my kerbals and science did.

There seems to be a bug with the heat shields – they don't have mass, so with some capsules the centre of mass is too high and they flip during re-entry. This kills the crew.

But otherwise, yeah, you're not supposed to bring back more than crew and the experiment results, unless you build a space plane.

Using this together with cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) produces quite awesome results: http://imgur.com/gallery/i1LtkK7/