You can read it here - http://cs.iit.edu/~khale/docs/diver-ross19.pdf. It 
mentions OSv and capstan. The authors lay out ambitious plans to create 
specialized OSes build and deployment ecosystem - driver.

Regarding capstan, one of the features it is missing is the ability to 
build images out of the manifest files, the same ones created by OSv 
./sccript/*manifest*.py scripts. It should be pretty trivial to use.

I believe one of the authors is on the mailing list ;-)

Waldek

PS. This is one of the interesting statements that strikes a cord in me:
"Despite their benefits, SOSes still face several challenges. The designers 
must make the decision whether or not the kernel interface will retain 
POSIX compatibility (or binary compatibility with, e.g. Linux), pick the 
right abstractions for the target workload(s), and decide on the right 
level of protection, among other issues. *Specialization for its own sake 
is not necessarily a good idea, and as work in the architecture community 
shows, striking a good balance between domain-specific design and 
general-purpose abstractions can pay off [35]*. Some of these design points 
can (and should) be based on foundational principles, but others require 
experimentation and design iteration."

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