New post: Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by #Podman

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

New post: Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by #Podman

The case for running Arch, Ubuntu, and a real RHEL userspace as long-lived containers on a Fedora laptop. Home directory mounted in, GUI apps integrated, VSCode treats the box as a remote target.

Bonus: on a Fedora host registered with subscription-manager, RHEL entitlements propagate into UBI containers automatically via Podman's default mounts.conf. No flags, no manual bind mounts.

Especially good on Atomic spins.

Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by Podman

A “real” RHEL container on a Fedora laptop, an Arch box for the AUR, an Ubuntu box for that one vendor tool that ships .deb files only, all of them with your...

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#Linux #Fedora #Distrobox #Atomic

[tomas@gts.odehnal.online]

@Larvitz I'm using toolbx as it is baked-in in atomic Fedora, but didn't know about distrobox.ini that could help me setup the containers when fresh. I guess I'll give it a shot Thank you for the article!

[larvitz@burningboard.net]

@tomas Distrobox is a bit more sophisticated than toolbox, but both tools do something similar. I prefer Distrobox.