Session: 2 for 1: What’s the latest with unikernels and open source? / The Ease of Empyry – Spinning Up a Plugin Based Package Repository in 15 Minutes

What’s the latest with unikernels and open source? – Gordon Haff

A unikernel is a single bootable image consisting of user code linked together with additional components that provide kernel-level functionality, such as opening files. The resulting program can boot and run on its own as a single process, in a single address space, and at elevated privilege level without the need for a conventional operating system. This fusion of application and kernel components is very lightweight and can have performance, security, and other advantages.

However, although unikernels are part of the earliest history of operating systems, they’ve never been widely used for a number of reasons. But that could change with some of the ongoing unikernel research happening with Linux. Come to this talk and learn more about the collaborative work going on between industry and academia in this area.

The Ease of Empyry – Spinning Up a Plugin Based Package Repository in 15 Minutes – Joseph Weaver

Empyry is a new package repository created by a high school junior designed to be easy to use and expandable, with every package manager being its own independent plugin. See how easy it is to start using Empyry by watching a fully featured server set up with support for multiple package managers in 15 Minutes.