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I've never heard of k8s described as a modern implementation of a Linux distro. What makes you say that?
Obviously only talking about user space here.. Kube doesn't have any ambitions to manage kernel drivers or whatever (at least not until eBPF gets wider adoption).
Basically though, they have the same goals. To run programs and manage network communications. Kube does this in an extremely flexible way and it allows you to tolerate failures much more gracefully than the old ways. It's nowhere near appropriate as a replacement for a desktop distribution though.. I'm talking about the server world.
The way kube works is really just a beautiful thing to see and I never want to manage a server the old way again if I can avoid it. The wider infrastructure industry is all moving in this direction and the overwhelming bulk of open-source development effort is going into cloud native tooling.. The CNCF landscape map alone shows how huge of an explosion is occurring right now.. It's an exciting time to be involved.