Microsoft announced in May that the new version of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), will be running on the Linux kernel, itself running alongside the Windows kernel in Windows. In June, the first version of WSL2 has been made available as long as you update your Windows 10 installation to the Windows Insider …
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Apr 04 2019
Running Steam in a LXD system container
Update February 2021: This tutorial shows how to install manually the shared libraries for OpenGL in the container. The user needs to make sure that the library versions in the container matches those of the host. That was not very good. Now, LXD supports the NVidia container runtime, which is provided by NVidia and has …
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Oct 10 2018
How to create a minimal container image for LXC/LXD with distrobuilder
In the previous post, we saw how to build distrobuilder, then use it to create a LXD container image for Ubuntu. We used one of the existing configuration files for an Ubuntu container image. In this post, we are going to see how to compose such YAML configuration files that describe how the container image …
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Oct 09 2018
Using distrobuilder to create container images for LXC and LXD
With LXC and LXD you can run system containers, which are containers that behave like a full operating system (like a Virtual Machine does). There are already official container images for most Linux distributions. When you run lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 mycontainer, you are using the ubuntu: repository of container images to launch a container with …
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Sep 28 2018
Using Arduino IDE for the ESP32 in a LXD container
The ESP32 is a dual-core microcontroller that has both WiFi and Bluetooth. The ESP32 is the next generation of the older single-core microcontroller ESP8266 that only had WiFi. You can perform most tasks that you did with the various Arduinos but with the ESP32 (or ESP8266) and you also have WiFi embedded into the microcontroller. …
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Sep 28 2018
Setting up the ESP32 in LXD on Ubuntu
The ESP32 is a dual-core microcontroller that has both WiFi and Bluetooth. The ESP32 is the next generation of the older single-core microcontroller ESP8266 that only had WiFi. You can perform most tasks that you did with the various Arduinos but with the ESP32 (or ESP8266) and you also have WiFi embedded into the microcontroller. …
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