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Re:Painless desktop containers for everyday development by viraptor on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:24PM (#31626629)
Since it's aiming for Linux, I wish there was a comparison to two similar technologies: toolbox and plain systemd-machine. I'm not sure if dock provides anything they don't?
Re:Painless desktop containers for everyday development by smoochy on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:30PM (#31626666)
I'm not sure either, I've never even heard about toolbox. And systemd... Yeah. I never really cared about whether or not "it is", until configuring things started to get out of hand.

But you are not correct in assuming this is aiming for Linux - my next goal is adding BSD jails. I see absolutely no reason why different container engines would bother user with architecture, different APIs and apps etc. And, then, I think there's actually something, that although it sounds crazy, might work wonderfully on any OS, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625920

Re:Painless desktop containers for everyday development by diffeomorphism on Sunday June 05, 2022 @08:18AM (#31630308)
> Yeah. I never really cared about whether or not "it is", until configuring things started to get out of hand.

That seems pretty much entirely unrelated? It just is a software project that happens to be distributed by the same umbrella project.

Re:Painless desktop containers for everyday development by viraptor on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:13PM (#31626919)
Sorry, wrong wording. I meant it currently fully supports only Linux (with only minor nits on macos if I understand correctly)
Re:Painless desktop containers for everyday development by smoochy on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:19PM (#31626957)
Once the "patching" system is finished, it will work on any system, regardless. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625835