Distrobox 1.6 Released For Easily Launching New Distros Within Your Terminal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Distrobox 1.6 Released For Easily Launching New Distros Within Your Terminal

Distrobox 1.6 released on Sunday for this open-source project that makes it wasy to launch any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Distrobox builds upon Podman and Docker to allow creating containers of the Linux distribution of your choice and for that to integrate nicely with the host environment. With succeeding releases, Distrobox has built up quite an arsenal of features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Distrobox-1.6-Released

[patrick1946]

Nice. Distrobox really changed my development environment. Since then my development environment is decoupled from my base system. Even better I can have multiple for testing.

[grigi]

I didn't know about this. Interesting.

[gnarlin]

Spelling error: "that makes it wasy to launch"

[Michael]

Spelling error: "that makes it wasy to launch"

Whoops thanks

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Distrobox is great. The full changelog is quite long. --unshare-netns should hopefully fix Steam containers inability to hit Steam Cloud after a suspend resume due to resolve.conf shenanigans.

[ezst036]

No GUI? The use of the word "easy/easily" (etc) is sadly a little misplaced.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

No GUI? The use of the word "easy/easily" (etc) is sadly a little misplaced.

Everything is relative. Distrobox and Toolbox are indeed much easier / nicer interfaces than e.g. raw creation in Podman. Distrobox has way more extremely useful features than Toolbox though, and is still "easy to use".

Sounds like you may be interested in GUIs like this...

https://github.com/marhkb/pods

[Quackdoc]

Distrobox is genuinely a great tool, I use arch as my main PC, and yeah dep issues can be a hassle some times, and sometimes it's nice to just spin up something packaged for say fedora that isnt for arch (AUR is not omnipotent afterall.)

[Quackdoc]

No GUI? The use of the word "easy/easily" (etc) is sadly a little misplaced.

If a GUI is necessary for something to be easy for you, this speaks less about how the word easy is used and more about your aversion to CLI tooling. I myself find CLI tools way easier to deal with then GUI tools. does that make gui tools not easy? no. thats stupid.