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Soulskill
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from the chasing-the-penguins-out-of-the-sky dept.
New submitter urdak writes "At CloudOpen in New Orleans, KVM veterans Avi Kivity and Dor Laor revealed their latest venture, a new open-source (BSD license) operating system named OSv. OSv can run existing Linux programs and runtime environments such as a JVM,
but unlike Linux, OSv was designed from the ground up to run
efficiently on virtual machines. For example, OSv avoids the traditional
(but slow) userspace-kernel isolation, as on the cloud VMs normally run
a single application. OSv is also much smaller than Linux, and breaks
away from tradition by being written in C++11 (the language choice is
explained in in this post)."
