Project Atomic, a Red Hat sponsored project, features an interesting new update system for RPM-based Linux operating systems called OSTree (rpm-ostree) which has been developed by Colin Walters over the last couple of years. Evidently OSTree supports atomic updates to an OS although I am not sure how that actually works because there is a lot of marketing hype and buzz words associated with Project Atomic including Docker containers. In the default model, the RPMs are composed on a server into an OSTree repository, and client systems can replicate in an image-like fashion, including incremental updates. However, unlike traditional Linus
