Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

[lproven]

What's lxc and what's lxd?

LXC: Linux kernel built-in container manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/introduction/

LXD: Ubuntu's "containervisor" aimed at running "system containers" -- entire Linux distros, in a container.

https://ubuntu.com/lxd

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LXD

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXD

LXD uses the underlying technology of LXC to manage containers, although I believe these days it can also start and manage true VMs using KVM+QEMU.

LXD allows containers to have dedicated hardware assigned to them, for live migration to other machines, and so on. It does rather more than bare LXC, which is mainly intended for application containers: a single isolated binary, with no init system inside the container.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

Not sure what that means. LXD is really cool, it's like a modernized LXC on steroids. Really powerful system containers, really easy to manage. And no, podman is in no way an alternative and neither is systemd-nspawn. What's special about LXD is the management aspect, which others simply don't have!

put a fork in it ?

[Knghtbrd]

Canonical, on the heels of RedHat being evil corporate scum, didya really think now was the time to pull a move that looks like you're trying to seize or re-seize corporate control over an open source project? Way to read the room, guys!

*sigh* Please don't f**k it up?

[HattinGokbori87]

The FOSS community would be more friendly (and free of corporation-hired trolls), and we would have conquered desktop & mobile if there was only RedHat, not Canonical. Canonical sabotaged every great plan RedHat had/has and that stopped the progress of FOSS.
FACT!

[EphemeralEft]

Canonical, on the heels of RedHat being evil corporate scum, didya really think now was the time to pull a move that looks like you're trying to seize or re-seize corporate control over an open source project? Way to read the room, guys!

*sigh* Please don't f**k it up?

This is the perfect time (for them) to do it: everyone is distracted, and even if people notice, the competition still looks worse.

[Eirikr1848]

The FOSS community would be more friendly (and free of corporation-hired trolls), and we would have conquered desktop & mobile if there was only RedHat, not Canonical. Canonical sabotaged every great plan RedHat had/has and that stopped the progress of FOSS.
FACT!

How did Ubuntu Touch (now UBTouch) negatively impact Red Hat’s mobile plans?