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Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Distrobox uses podman, docker or lilipod to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice. The created container will be tightly integrated with the host, allowing sharing of the HOME directory of the user, external storage, external USB devices and graphical apps (X11/Wayland), and audio. Simply put it's a fancy wrapper around podman, docker, or lilipod to create and start containers highly integrated with the hosts. The distrobox environment is based on an OCI image. This image is used to create a container that seamlessly integrates with the rest of the operating system by providing access to the user's home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking, removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc.
Features
- Creates and destroy containers based on a config file
- Provide a mutable environment on an immutable OS
- Mix and match a stable base system (eg. Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, RedHat) with a bleeding-edge
- Leverage a high abundance of curated distro images for docker/podman to manage multiple environments
- Documentation available
- Run Debian/Ubuntu container behind proxy
- Create a dedicated distrobox container
- Integrate VSCode and Distrobox
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