apx
Apx is the Vanilla OS package manager. It’s meant to be simple to use, but also powerful with support to installing packages from multiple sources without altering the root filesystem. (by Vanilla-OS)
podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (by containers)
| apx | podman | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 358 | |
| 474 | 21,729 | |
| 1.3% | 1.4% | |
| 8.8 | 10.0 | |
| 9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
apx
Posts with mentions or reviews of apx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-02.
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Downsides of linux mint
With the advent of containerised software like Flatpak (or apx if you're adventurous) and Distrobox, running a solid LTS release like Mint has fewer drawbacks than ever.
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Apx v2, is now ready for testing
Download the latest build from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx/releases/tag/continuous.
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Linux Application installation
All Flatpaks can be installed as a user. For any other apps, you can compile & install apx, which lets you run many distros in full performance, host integrated containers in your home directory
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Using Apx
Honestly, I would try asking on their github .. seems like it should be possible to run it on Silverblue and based on the description from the main project page (emphasis mine), I would think it should be ok
- I created an alternative package manager to apx
- openSUSE ALP: Call for Volunteers
- Options to move forward from EndeavourOS or stay?
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Support for Android apps
There is an issue with lxc as stated here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4283 and https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx/issues/118
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Hod do I change the desktop environment?
You could try using APX or abroot to install XFCE or Cinnamon; check the APX docs: https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/apx/
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I deleted apt somehow and don't have dpkg. I'm running VanillaOS and I have wget. Please help!
Maybe this will help https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/apx/
podman
Posts with mentions or reviews of podman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.
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Podman 5.0 has been released
Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...
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Exploring 5 Docker Alternatives: Containerization Choices for 2024
Podman
- Podman 5.0.0: final release candidate
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A Gentle Introduction to Containerization and Docker
Even though we will focus on Docker for this article, I wanted to mention that there are more container creation and management tools such as Podman, Rkt, and so on.
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A Journey to Find an Ultimate Development Environment
By using containerization, the application will always have the same configuration that is used in the development environment and production environment. There is no more "It works on my machine". Some examples of containerization technologies are Docker and Podman.
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Anatomy of Docker
Podman Documentation. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.
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Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
AFAIK podman either already supports pods in quadlet container files, or will in the near future. https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/20762
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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
Podman as a devcontainers engine doesn't currently work if you use devcontainer features [1] or (and this sounds like you're issue) if you use WSL2.
I haven't submitted the WSL2 issue to the Podman team yet. If you get to it before I do, can you like it here?
https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18691#issuecomme...
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Oracle data base
You can also use their Oracle Linux Docker images with the database preinstalled using either Podman or Docker. Just make absolutely sure you are downloading something you are licensed to use, because it seems really easy to accidentally infringe copyright via this method.
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A call for Podman comparison charts
It's an open source project. https://github.com/containers/podman and https://podman.io - go there, get engaged, see what's going on and most important become part of the community and contribute!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing apx and podman you can also consider the following projects:
distrobox - 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. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Conty - Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
blend - Package manager for blendOS
kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes
live-iso - Vanilla OS Live ISO Builder.
rancher - Complete container management platform
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
containerd - An open and reliable container runtime
qemu-t8030 - iPhone 11 emulated on QEMU
nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...