Application: Operating Systems and IPFS

[flyingzumwalt]

Work in progress - please contribute. See #40.

[traverseda]

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]

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

[Stebalien]

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]

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

[Stebalien]

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

[tapaswenipathak]

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]

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]

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.