Containers with elderly to ancient Linux versions

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 11:24:50 UTC 2017


On 16 February 2017 at 18:01, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Liam: You'll be better off using a container, resource-wise


This was my thought, yes.

> if WP
> doesn't need an exclusively 8.04 environment.

Can you clarify what that means?

> To set up a container
> for a GUI app
>
> https://stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-containers/
>
> but Google might give you more recent howtos.

That's interesting. I've met Stephane Graber; he's one of the lead
architects of Ubuntu's LXD container system.

But it's 12.04 which is way too recent for WP, alas.


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