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clarry on Aug 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor

If this gets popular, I can see them stripping the OS and other cruft down so that the application almost runs on bare (virtual) metal. A complete desktop OS with user software and drivers for all the unused hardware sounds unlikely.

arghnoname on Aug 30, 2014 [–]

This is basically what OSv is. It's stripped down virtualization environment meant to only run a single application on bare (virtual) metal.

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