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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this the program that open source people use to install all the random depencies that their program needs to work? The one that people tell me to use when I complain about git bash pico sudo pytorch Install commands?

Or did another company copy their name?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, they're one implementor of about 10 that use the same container standards. It sucks that they were first so their name is now synonymous with containers a la Kleenex, but the technology itself is standard, very open and ubiquitous, and a huge step forward in simplifying deployments and development lifecycles that would otherwise be too complex to reasonably handle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

To be fair, I used LXC before Docker, so I've always called them "containers." But I guess I'm old or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Not having to install dependencies is a benefit of containers and their images. That's a pretty big thing to miss. Maybe give it a closer look.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Docker doesn't do that. That's something else.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

But it does in a lot of cases. At work, we use Docker images to bundle our dependencies for each microservice, and at home, I use Docker images for the same reason on my self-hosted repos. It's fantastic for running servers in a sandbox so you don't have to worry about what dependencies the host has.

But perhaps OP is talking about flatpaks instead.