[HN Gopher] Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Co...
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       Incus, a community fork of LXD, now part of Linux Containers
        
       Author : ropyeett
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2023-08-07 17:05 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | Dwedit wrote:
       | How does LXD compare with LXC?
        
         | samtho wrote:
         | LXC is essentially a library file that implements Linux
         | containers via a combination of network namespaces, chroot
         | jails, process isolation, etc.
         | 
         | LXD is daemon that manages LXC containers, networks, groups,
         | has a database, etc.
        
       | orange-mentor wrote:
       | Pleased about this. I'm a huge fan of LXD. It's a powerful and
       | underrated piece of tech.
       | 
       | I don't think the story on container (and VM!) orchestration is
       | settled, and I'll be interested to see how the devs evolve the
       | tech. I'll be deploying it, for sure.
        
       | gunapologist99 wrote:
       | Can anyone offer the story behind this fork? with as little
       | hyperbole as possible, what does "Canonical's decision to take
       | LXD away from Linux Containers" mean?
       | 
       | (Given that "we have made the decision to take Incus under the
       | umbrella of Linux Containers and will commit to it the
       | infrastructure which was previously made available to LXD", so is
       | it right that the team had considered re-assigning those
       | resources somewhere else, or was there a time elapsed or
       | something going on where they didn't want to immediately just
       | fork the code)
       | 
       | Obviously, there's always emotions involved in any split like
       | this, but I'm just looking to know why it actually happened
       | (facts) and the practical impact it will have on LXD, especially
       | for other non-Canonical distros. Is this really a SUSE-only fork,
       | or is it for other distros as well?
       | 
       | Update: found this, which seems to help explain some of the
       | backstory: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/
        
         | stryan wrote:
         | > Obviously, there's always emotions involved in any split like
         | this, but I'm just looking to know why it actually happened
         | (facts) and the practical impact it will have on LXD,
         | especially for other non-Canonical distros. Is this really a
         | SUSE-only fork, or is it for other distros as well?
         | 
         | The maintainer works at SUSE but this is not a SUSE project.
        
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