New words

[izard]

Recently I hear a word "baremetal" in a new meaning: application running as a usermode Linux process, where Linux runs on real hardware. I keep hearing it from cloud folks who use OpenStack a lot. Each time I ask: "are you sure your app is baremetal?"

Am I too old-fashioned? It is very misleading, even in virtualization context (and especially there) there are real baremetal images. I think even openstack defines baremetal stacks, or does it? Never seen in the wild..