Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal | Hacker News

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939240

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

I glanced at this last night. I haven't read much of it, and I haven't tried it. I never heard of it, or its antecedent mentioned in the README.md file.

Could this, or something else like it, be the basis of a super fast, distro agnostic, shared server?

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  • I think distrobox is like lxc, except it doesn't require the root permission and it's easier to communicate with the apps/files/etc inside the container.

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  • @dwight said:
    I think distrobox is like lxc, except it doesn't require the root permission and it's easier to communicate with the apps/files/etc inside the container.

    Distrobox runs a docker container with the said distro and transfers your terminal to inside the container on command. It is a good way to test out various linux features.

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  • edited July 11

    Oh it's very useful for me.

  • tetechtetech OG
    edited July 11

    @cherriesonce said:

    Oh it's very useful for me.

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    edited July 11

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  • edited July 11

    @tetech said:

    @cherriesonce said:

    Oh it's very useful for me.

    If you want to join and bump your post count with such useless comments, at least do it on threads that aren't 2 months old.

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    edited July 11

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