talos

There's systems like Talos where you are pretty much explicitly not allowed to touch Linux, where essentially the only thing the computer presents that you can control is Kubernetes itself. At that point, the OS is kubernetes basically; I find it much harder to entertain pretenses that it's not when you get that far along. https://github.com/siderolabs/talos But it's really a gradient. As more and more services and systems move from being systemd services (or whatever) to in kubernetes, I see it as the position along a gradient shifting. Both are operating systems. They're different operating systems, doing different things, but both manage and provide resources for user payloads, both run apps, both host a user interface (apiserver for kubernetes), both have state (also apiserver, vs file-systems).

Many other distros almost work out of the box (as in they boot and run without any modifications). The custom kernel patches you mentioned address mainly non-critical bugs such as a bug where the Realtek r8127 stops working after a reboot (but it works if you turn it off and on again) [1] [2]. I'd consider it in a way better state than trying to run other Linux distros on certain device tree-based devices like, say, Qualcomm Snapdragon machines. The regular NVIDIA drivers with the open source kernel modules work just fine. Talos Linux supports DGX Spark since version 1.12 [3]. I also know of people using Fedora and nixOS successfully. [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/NV-Kernels/compare/ea55925ab430f1e... [2] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/realtek-r8127-ethernet... [3] https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/issues/12170

talos is already in use by https://github.com/siderolabs/talos, was confused for a second when I saw talos and wasm for a second, got excited about native wasm pod support.