First a big thank you to all the organisers of systemd conference. You did an amazing job and I can not wait for 2016 edition. I do wish there would be some place in the program for lightning/ignate talks that are organized ad-hoc, but now I am just being picky. See you in 2016!

rkt containers

rkt containers are build with help of systemd inside and take different approach how to specify containers, then for example Docker. More details you can find in the video from Alban and Jon.

I am holding my judgement of how I feel about whole rkt approach, but I can definetly agree with Alban and Jon that it goes a way to reinvent package management. And in this context I do not mean anything bad with reinventing. On the contrary, it shows that CoreOS developers have the same feeling about the current situation and state of packaging as me.

package managers are broken!

Maybe they did not want to upset anybody and they did not say it out laud but traditional packaging tools are broken. And as traditional I mean packaging tools that are used in more popular linux distributions (apt-get/deb, yum/rpm, brew, emerge, pacman, ...).

It would make this blog post too long to explain everything properly and argue what I actually mean when calling tools broken. But I promise to come back in a 2 week with a blog post only about this. I promise!