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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.

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Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by Podman

A โ€œrealโ€ 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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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/806dd9ad-bc5a-40ed-b057-af9c2ebf31d6/new-post-distrobox-different-distributions-in-a-box-powered-by-podmanRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:08:45 GMTSun, 10 May 2026 15:54:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to New post: Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by #Podman on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:07:32 GMT]]>@tomas Distrobox is a bit more sophisticated than toolbox, but both tools do something similar. I prefer Distrobox.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116551375436509190https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116551375436509190Sun, 10 May 2026 17:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New post: Distrobox: Different Distributions in a Box, Powered by #Podman on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:06:20 GMT]]>@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 ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you for the article!

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