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Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu by gizdan on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:47PM (#28618576)
Why do they need to? Sure it'll be nice, but depending on your market, maybe that's an unnecessary implementation detail.
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Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu by zekrioca on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:52PM (#28619480)
They do mention

"Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full…" [see main page]

when in fact they simply use LXD, which uses all these features. Besides, it is a project dependency, which is not mentioned anywhere.

Edit: clarity.

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Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu by aritmo on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:38PM (#28620794)
LXC, not LXD.
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Re:Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu by zekrioca on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:02PM (#28621099)
Oops, yes, LXC.
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