Sep 11 2018
There is yet another computer language, called Julia. What’s special with Julia, you may ask? It is a language specifically suited for tasks of scientists, engineers and students. Compared to a general purpose programming language, Julia has built-in those complex data types that you need in science. For example, multidimensional matrices are built-in in Julia. …
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Sep 05 2018
In a LXD (lex-dee) installation there is the host (where the LXD service is running) and there are the containers that you create. On the host, you can run the various lxc subcommands (like lxc list to get a list of the containers). The containers, on the other hand, are by default confined and isolated …
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Jul 23 2018
You have a cloud server and you got more than one public IP addresses. How do you get those additional IP addresses to associate to specific LXD containers? That is, how do you get your LXD container to use a public IP address? This post has been tested with a packet.net baremetal server. Prerequisites You …
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Jul 10 2018
Here is the announcement of the release of Minimal Ubuntu for public clouds and Docker Hub. Minimal Ubuntu is similar to Ubuntu Server, but with much less packages. Among the packages that are gone, it’s documentation packages, locales and other user-oriented packages. Obviously, you can install whichever packages you need. That is, for any package …
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Jun 28 2018
You can write instructions in a language like English, just like I do now with this blog post. If you want to write instructions for a computer, you are likely to use some sort of intermediate language that will then be converted into raw instructions suitable for the computer. Those intermediate languages are the programming …
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Jun 25 2018
UPDATE June 2020: See newer post at https://blog.simos.info/running-x11-software-in-lxd-containers/ for simplified instructions. They require a recent LXD (version 4.0 or newer), and snap packages work. Note: This post is about LXD containers. These are system containers, which means they are similar to Docker but behave somewhat like virtual machines. When you start a LXD (lex-dee) container, …
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