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

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> 
> > No use at all! :-)  It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and
> > I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it
> > in E-Mail or whatever.
> 
>   can you say what that scanner applet is?
> 
> 
> > A VirtualBox instance running the old distro would work for me as you
> > can share files between that an the 'parent' system but it really
> > seems like overkill for running just one little app/program.
> >
> > At present the simplest solution for me seems to be to install the old
> > distro on a low-power consumption system and simply run the scanner
> > utility via 'ssh -X' so that I can see it on my desktop screen. That
> > does work OK, the only downside is the small extra bit of power
> > consumption.
> 
>   it seems like that right now, but perhaps some poking
> around may come up with another way.
> 
I'm still poking! :-)


>   is the constraint for the applet that it needs python 2?
> or?
> 
Basically yes, what makes it impossiblr to migrate to Python3 is that
there is a .so file which is a python package built for Python 2,
otherwise I would be quite happy to convert it all to Python 3.

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Chris Green
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