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Calling podman “the open-source docker alternative” is disingenuous. The Docker engine which it competes with is also open-source. The only closed Docker produc
by zapita 5y ago
Calling podman “the open-source docker alternative” is disingenuous. The Docker engine which it competes with is also open-source. The only closed Docker product is their desktop wrapper, for which podman is not an alternative.
Podman people, you’re better than this.
- kodah 5y agoThis has little or nothing to do with "podman people". The stuff people are talking about in the top comments have everything to do with people (and corporations) trying to figure out how to run podman efficiently on MacOS. It certainly can be done by bundling QEMU or through a VM. Second, Docker Desktop for MacOS and Windows are not open source, hence this repository is empty: https://github.com/docker/for-win https://github.com/docker/for-win
- brodock 5y agoDocker is open-core.
- j16sdiz 5y agoDocker Desktop is not
- hda111 5y agoDocker isn’t true open source in my opinion. With true open source you can compile your own version of the software with your own changes and it works just like the official release. You can’t do this with Docker Engine afaik.