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…them to learn than by making mistakes? And if it's a shared computer, Linux container tools (e.g. https://github.com/containers/toolbox ) would let them "sudo rm -rf /" in their own environment without jeopardizing the base system or other…

comment by curt15 · 2026-10-06 · in Apple and a hacker's future

…As for plain development, sadly, the OS developers are simply ignoring the people asking. See: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/183 https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/348 https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/14…

comment by bsder · 2026-02-04 · in Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

There is toolbox, see https://github.com/containers/toolbox .

comment by bonzini · 2025-08-18 · in Finding a Successor to the FHS

…development options abundant, with web or GUI options abound. Toolbox is a great example. https://github.com/containers/toolbox I guess it could be argued that this brings a personal computer model to a shared terminal system, hybridized…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-01 · in The "personal computer" model scales better than the "terminal" model

toolbx is not actually intended to provide any security or isolation, see e.g. https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/183

comment by evertheylen · 2025-06-26 · in Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux

…container that worked similarly to the one you have (the Podman people took over its maintenance): https://github.com/containers/toolbox

comment by rzzzt · 2025-05-07 · in docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable

…nobody has this right now. There are LOTS of issues filed against "toolbox" for this, for example: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/183 https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/348 https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issue…

comment by bsder · 2025-04-10 · in The Mutable OS: Why Isn't Windows Immutable in 2025?

…is lost. [0] https://github.com/vikdevelop/SaveDesktop [1] https://mise.jdx.dev/ [2] https://github.com/containers/toolbox [3] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by pzmarzly · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…has "toolbox" by default because most everything should be in a container containers/toolbox: https://github.com/containers/toolbox From https://containertoolbx.org/distros/ : > Distro support: By default, Toolbx creates the container…

comment by westurner · 2023-12-03 · in Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

…Linux / FreeDesktop environment. It's far far far far deeper virtualization than for example https://github.com/containers/toolbox . But you know what? Google has made zero effort to get these pieces adopted elsewhere. It's open source but…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-10-06 · in ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

…with the rest of the system — you don't really even feel that you're running a container. https://github.com/containers/toolbox

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2023-08-13 · in Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell

Seems like toolbox is also in this space; https://github.com/containers/toolbox

comment by eikenberry · 2023-06-21 · in Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated

Quoting the README: It implements the same concepts introduced by https://github.com/containers/toolbox but in a simplified way using POSIX sh and aiming at broader compatibility. All the props go to them as they had the great idea to…

comment by darrenf · 2023-05-15 · in Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

How is it different from Toolbox? ( https://github.com/containers/toolbox )

comment by samarthr1 · 2023-05-15 · in Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

…2. You could use a tool like Podman or Docker, to run stuff in containers. I've heard stuff like https://github.com/containers/toolbox helps this. (Among other solutions).

comment by rgoulter · 2023-03-18 · in 20 years of Nix

So essentially this seems like another implementation of what toolbox and distrobox is implementing. https://github.com/containers/toolbox/ https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox With the downside of not having the option to select a Linux…

comment by Foxboron · 2022-08-26 · in Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

…via Podman. There’s even a convenient wrapper for that workflow made by Red Hat called Toolbox ( https://github.com/containers/toolbox )

comment by bogwog · 2022-03-08 · in C Package Manager

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story by nomad41 · 2021-12-26 · 0 comments

…( https://github.com/coreos/toolbox ) which was originally a bash script, now re-written in Go ( https://github.com/containers/toolbox ) that's very, very unfortunate. It should just be a user configuration. In the original we defaulted to…

comment by thebeardisred · 2021-11-02 · in Fedora 35

It's pretty easy to create one yourself (from an open MR https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/483/files#diff-21... ), but it would have been nice to have out of the box. I've used buildah to set up a C/C++ dev environment in a Ubuntu…

comment by runfalk · 2021-09-02 · in Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods

From a previous discussion: One very interesting piece of tech coming from podman, is toolbox ( https://github.com/containers/toolbox ). Basically throwaway (or keeparound) rootless containers with their own root directory but shared HOME.…

comment by maweki · 2021-09-02 · in Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods

…tools; you’ll generally want as little as possible layered on the OSTree file system. 1. https://github.com/containers/toolbox

comment by jamesgeck0 · 2021-07-13 · in macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

There is a tool, Toolbox, for changing linux environments that could be helpful to test that. https://github.com/containers/toolbox

comment by lbhdc · 2021-06-20 · in Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1

…project, sharing your entire home dir with every container but not explicitly documenting this: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/183

comment by markstos · 2021-04-13 · in Private Home Directories for Ubuntu 21.04

I'm currently testing fedora silverblue, which uses toolbox in a roughly similar way. https://github.com/containers/toolbox One thing that bugs me is that I can't (or don't know how) get my current state into a Textfile, from which I can…

comment by turbinerneiter · 2021-04-04 · in Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)

One very interesting piece of tech coming from it, is toolbox ( https://github.com/containers/toolbox ). Basically throwaway (or keeparound) rootless containers with their own root directory but shared HOME. Install hundreds of…

comment by maweki · 2021-02-11 · in Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine

…"topical" homes: node, python, scientific stuff), but there is also something like toolbox: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/blob/master/README.md Note that you need to secure your X-Server also, especially when sharing your…

comment by fock · 2019-12-04 · in Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys

…gets backed up. I back up mine with rclone[2] to my school's unlimited Google Drive storage. [0]: https://github.com/containers/toolbox [1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolb... [2]: https://rclone.org/

comment by Seirdy · 2019-10-30 · in Fedora 31 is officially here