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In the following gist I'm going to guide you through the process of installing and booting an entire linux distribution with full desktop environment just like you would have with a classical VM, but with much better performance and much worse isolation :)

The reason why I did this was mainly because it's cool, but also to test new distros with decent graphics performance without actually booting them on my PC.

If you "try this at home" just keep in mind a container is not as secure as a VM, and some of the option we're going to explore will weaken container isolation from "a bit risky" to "totally unsafe" depending on what you choose.

Also, we're going to use systemd-nspawn for containers as it's probably the best fit for our use case and can also boot any linux partition without needing to prepare an apposite container image.

Less go!

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The Things Stack Bootstrap

A script to bootstrap The Things Stack, based on the getting started guide.

Preparation

• Clone this gist.
• Spin up a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server.
  • Var SSHUser: the username that will be used to SSH into the server. This user must be able to sudo.
• Point a public DNS record to your server's IP address. It may take some time before this resolves.

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Commit, clone a container

To 'clone' a container, you'll have to make an image of that container first, you can do so by "committing" the container. Docker will (by default) pause all processes running in the container during commit to preserve data-consistency.

For example;

docker commit --message="Snapshot of my container" my_container my_container_snapshot:yymmdd

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am neolinux on github.
• I am neolinux (https://keybase.io/neolinux) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASAe4H0ZXwAbYmStsWArzwQsFJ-5rdcca-oGlGQukwT7Gwo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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To pupils: all binaries can be downloaded http://pan.baidu.com/s/1ntCChyp

After overwriting, maybe need to run chmod +x /path/to/sublime_text. For linux default installation, need to add sudo.

For programmers:

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Install osxfuse (3.x.x) from https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/releases.

Install Homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Update Homebrew formulae:

brew update