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Application: Operating Systems and IPFS #57

Open flyingzumwalt opened 7 years ago

flyingzumwalt commented 7 years ago

Work in progress - please contribute. See ipfs/apps#40.

traverseda commented 6 years ago

If the caching was good enough, you could use something like goboLinux, and make an "append only" operating system. No need for a package manager when everything is already "installed".

The big question is how should linking work. A normal dynamic linker doesn't make much sense, since we should be linking to ipfs hashes directly. But what we're looking for isn't quite a conventional static linker either...

tapaswenipathak commented 5 years ago

Hi folks, Is there any research or work done for this ticket?

Stebalien commented 5 years ago

The main IPFS goal for this year is package manager support. That is, improving the performance and usability of IPFS such that it can be used by package managers. The next logical step would be to support something like goboLinux and/or GUIX.

Work is being tracked here: https://github.com/ipfs/package-managers.

tapaswenipathak commented 5 years ago

Nice; ack. Can you please help me which is the ticket where I can find notes or discussion?

Stebalien commented 5 years ago

The roadmap lives here: https://github.com/ipfs/roadmap. Discussions, unfortunately, happened all over the place

tapaswenipathak commented 5 years ago

I didn't find anything in https://github.com/ipfs/roadmap. Are these Application: tickets just idea phrasing from the IPFS org, kind of scaling and inviting implementations from people who aren't part of the org?

Stebalien commented 5 years ago

These are application ideas.

Note: I brought up package manager support as package managers are a key part of many operating systems and decent package manager support would enable use-cases like https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues/247#issuecomment-376153573.

jessicaschilling commented 4 years ago

Note: Discussion on applications of IPFS are happening over in the IPFS Forums now ... please continue the discussion there!

This issue is being moved over to the archived repo https://github.com/ipfs/apps/ for reference.