Re:Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
by idoubtit on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:45AM
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> The problem with podman at the moment (IMO) is version drift. RHEL/Fedora and friends get the latest and greatest (4), Debian/Ubuntu are stuck on 3.x.
Podman has no control on this. Each Linux distribution deals with packaging in its own way. If this packaging is not to your taste, podman can easily be installed from alternatives sources: unofficial deb packages, or plain binaries.
BTW, podman v4 is in debian/experimental. I don't know why it didn't land into unstable yet.
> This isn't a problem with Docker, which has tight control over what is deployed.
AFAIK, Docker (now Moby) has no control over what is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu (unless the Debian maintainer works for Moby?). If you install Docker from the official Debian repositories, the "docker" package is an alias for "docker.io", which is a version 20.10.19 in debian/unstable. The latest 20.10.21 is not yet packaged by Debian.
Podman has no control on this. Each Linux distribution deals with packaging in its own way. If this packaging is not to your taste, podman can easily be installed from alternatives sources: unofficial deb packages, or plain binaries.
BTW, podman v4 is in debian/experimental. I don't know why it didn't land into unstable yet.
> This isn't a problem with Docker, which has tight control over what is deployed.
AFAIK, Docker (now Moby) has no control over what is packaged in Debian/Ubuntu (unless the Debian maintainer works for Moby?). If you install Docker from the official Debian repositories, the "docker" package is an alias for "docker.io", which is a version 20.10.19 in debian/unstable. The latest 20.10.21 is not yet packaged by Debian.