Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Chris Green wrote:
...

  i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
them.


> I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye
> within my Debian Bookworm system.  I'm looking for something slightly
> 'lighter weight' than a full-blown virtual machine like virtualbox
> though I guess I can use virtualbox if I have to.

  the easiest and lightest weight to me is just having
another partition and booting that.  no extra layers of
anything needed at all.


> There are also, of course, things like Appimage and snap but although
> they might be able to do what I'm after they're not quite what I want
> and do seem very complex to build.  From where I am, running virtualbox
> will be (much) simpler.

  the only other ways of doing things for me is python
virtual environments - i don't need anything else so far
but then i'm also not doing many complicated things.


  songbird