Brandon Philips
An interview with CoreOS cofounder Brandon Philips
At the Core
CoreOS was cofounded in 2013 by Brandon Philips, a former SUSE Linux kernel developer. Since then, CoreOS has gained fame as a specialized Linux with the focus on clusters and containers. We caught up with Philips at LinuxCon North America to talk about CoreOS, 25 years of Linux, and the new challenges facing the modern IT infrastructure.
Linux Magazine: Linux celebrated 25 years in August. As the cofounder of the youngest Linux company, what do you think we have achieved in these last 25 years?
Brandon Philips: At this point, Linux is the dominant operating system, and that feat was accomplished by the hard work of a ton of different organizations and people. It's an amazing story. Linux enables lots of disparate people to have a shared goal, and through that shared goal, it created a software project that's enormously successful.
Just look at CoreOS Linux. It went from an idea to our first alpha release in just a few months. That [was] really not possible before the age of Linux. The fact that you can take Linux abstraction and run the same applications that you would on your mobile phone all the way up to the largest supercomputers in the world is a pretty large testament to the success of the project.
Linux has grown tremendously over the years, from back when it wasn't
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