Yes, you read it right. timg is a text mode image viewer and can also play videos. But, but, how is that possible? timg uses suitable Unicode characters and also the colour support that is available in many terminal emulators. timg is developed by Henner Zeller, and in 2017 I wrote a blog post about …
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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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Jul 10 2018
A closer look at Minimal Ubuntu for LXD
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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Dec 14 2017
multipass, management of virtual machines running Ubuntu
If you want to run a machine container, you would use LXD. But if you want to run a virtual machine, you would use multipass. multipass is so new, that is still in beta. The name is not known yet to Google, and you get many weird results when you search for it. Both containers …
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Jun 02 2014
How to count the population of flocks of birds using software
We normally see around a few birds and it is rather easy to count them. However, when there is a flock with dozens, hundreds or thousands of birds, there is need for an automated (computer-assisted) method to count the birds. Without a computer-assisted method, it is easy to over/under-estimate the count, and worst of all, there is …
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