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Mostly-unrelated question: could one build a desktop Linux distribution around Docker? Or rather, how difficult would it be? I assume OS X's application sandbox
by tlrobinson 13y ago
Mostly-unrelated question: could one build a desktop Linux distribution around Docker? Or rather, how difficult would it be? I assume OS X's application sandboxing uses a technology similar to LXC.
- joffreyf 13y agoYou might be looking for something akin to http://coreos.com/ http://coreos.com/ !
- tlrobinson 13y agoCoreOS could be a good starting point, but it's intended for servers so it's very bare bones (and the service discovery stuff might not make much sense)
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- wmf 13y agoSome people are working in that direction, see https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/glick2/ https://people.gnome.org/~alexl/glick2/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/562138/ http://lwn.net/Articles/562138/ Because this stuff is older than Docker it tends to be Dockerish but not actually Docker.
- jpetazzo 13y agoDepends what you have in mind, I guess. You could run most essential system components (syslog, ssh, cron...) inside containers, and bind-mount /home when it makes sense. Since those components need elevated privileges, I don't know if containers would be that useful... And then systemd already puts services in cgroups; it's a nice approach (IMHO). Or you could use containers a bit like virtualenvs. If you're a Python developer familiar with virtualenvwrapper, you probably use mkvirtualenv when you start working on a new project (or on a different setup for an existing project). Containers could be used in a similar manner with some clever wrappers.