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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/a-closer-look-at-minimal-ubuntu-for-lxd/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-helloworld-in-radare2-installed-from-a-snap-package/
Jun 25 2018
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, you are starting a new system on your computer, with its own IP address and all. You can get LXD as a snap package. …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-easily-run-graphics-accelerated-gui-apps-in-lxd-containers-on-your-ubuntu-desktop/
Jun 14 2018
If you have two LXD containers, mycontainer1 and mycontainer2, then you can reference each other with those handy *.lxd hostnames like this, $ lxc exec mycontainer1 — sudo –user ubuntu –login ubuntu@mycontainer1:~$ ping mycontainer2.lxd PING mycontainer2.lxd(mycontainer2.lxd (fd42:cba6:557e:1a5a:24e:3eff:fce2:8d3)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from mycontainer2.lxd (fd42:cba6:557e:1a5a:24e:3eff:fce2:8d3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.125 ms ^C — mycontainer2.lxd ping statistics — …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-use-lxd-container-hostnames-on-the-host-in-ubuntu-18-04/
May 11 2018
At Google I/O 2018, one of the presentations was on What’s new in Android apps for Chrome OS (Google I/O ’18). The third and most exciting developer tool shown in the presentation, was the ability to run graphical Linux apps on Chrome OS. Here is a screenshot of a native Linux terminal application, as shown …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/a-closer-look-at-chrome-os-using-lxd-to-run-linux-gui-apps-project-crostini/
Mar 26 2018
LXD is a container hypervisor/lighter-visor for Linux distributions. You kinda get the effect of a Linux virtual machine but using Linux containers instead. You can consider them as lightweight virtual machines. Currently, LXD is at version 2 (2.21) and soonish version 3.0 will be released. In this post we see how to get to try …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-try-lxd-3-0-beta/
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