Re: I have found a container system that works for my Python 2 app
On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > Thanks to various people here helping me to understand a bit more about
> > containers and some searching and experimentation I now have a
> > container to run my little Python 2 scanner app within Debian 12.
> >
> > It's distrobox which is a sort of wrapper for podman and gives one an
> > easy to use interface for installing various linux distros in
> > containers.
> >
> > I have used it to create a instance of ubuntu 18.04 on my Debian 12
> > desktop system. My scanner driver (which comes as a .deb) installed
> > OK and with the addition of some packages from ubuntu 18.04 it runs
> > without any problem.
> >
> > The nice thing about the distrobox container is that you can run a
> > program in it that is in your normal $HOME environment of the parent
> > system. It's only all the libraries and support files that are
> > 'virtualised'.
> >
> > Also, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2029 so I have a few years when
> > it should continue to 'just work'. :-)
>
> ah, ok! :)
>
???
What I know about Ubuntu:
- Debian based
- Each April and October a release
- The April release of even years, as 2024, 2022 2020 and 2018
have Long Time Support
- LTS is five years
Anyone to back up the above "Ubuntu 18.04 is support until 2029"?
> songbird
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