When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed a way ...

How to use Rocky Linux as a Docker container image Your email has been sent The creator of Rocky Linux has made the distribution available as a Docker image. Jack Wallen shows you how to get it, ...

Specifically, it's a toolkit to assemble custom Linux subsystems with the initial intention to create a more native experience for Windows and Mac macOS desktops and cloud platforms. This program was ...

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Running a full Linux desktop on a Windows or macOS-based machine usually requires dual-booting, a virtual machine on your PC, or a remote desktop connection to a system that's actually running it. But ...

What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the ...

Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

How to fix the Docker Desktop Linux installation with the addition of two files Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you what to do if you run into a situation ...

Learn how docker commit captures changes in a running container, make it persistent and create new images without altering ...