LWN: Comments on "Incus 0.2 released"

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tnoo — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:02:14 +0000

Thanks, that helps.

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mgedmin — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:53:24 +0000

Incus (and LXD) is a tool to manage whole-OS containers (in contract to docker and friends, which manage application containers). It's supposed to be a more lightweight alternative to things like libvirtd that manage virtual machines.

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highvoltage — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:50:26 +0000

Incus is a fork of LXD. It's founded by (at least most) of the people who originally wrote LXC/LXD at Canonical. From what I understand, after they left Canonical, they were locked out of contributing to LXD by being denied access to the git repository (and I suppose draconian CLA agreements could also have played a part), so they forked it to the new project called Incus, LWN also referred to it a while ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/940684/

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tnoo — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:53:25 +0000

Whatever Incus is or does. Also the cited link leaves the occasional non-LXDer in the dark.