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My take, given the optics of the change: Canonical is likely looking to bolster LXD integration within Ubuntu and drop support for other distros. Which... is
by horsawlarway 3y ago
My take, given the optics of the change:
Canonical is likely looking to bolster LXD integration within Ubuntu and drop support for other distros.
Which... is fair, in my opinion. They've done most of the maintenance and work, they are allowed to prioritize their use-cases.
But it also means there likely does need to be a fork available to make sure that wide distro support happens, and LXD doesn't become a snap store special for Ubuntu.
In the best case - They'll both cooperate nicely and canonical can focus on primary LXD development like they were, while other folks can pick up the tab for non-ubuntu packaging/testing/support.
- markshuttle 3y agoThat speculation is simply incorrect. We've never had a discussion about dropping support for other distros. Open source is better when more people use it, and that means its better to have it used on other distros. We've always tried to be at the forefront of new kernel capabilities - especially security and container tech - and it helps that Ubuntu generally has very modern kernels. On Ubuntu we can make releases of the kernel and LXD that line up nicely. Other distros with older kernels have always been supported as well as possible, and I don't see why that would not continue. There is certainly no plan at Canonical to inhibit that.