On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Thanks to various people here helping me to understand a bit more about > > containers and some searching and experimentation I now have a > > container to run my little Python 2 scanner app within Debian 12. > > > > It's distrobox which is a sort of wrapper for podman and gives one an > > easy to use interface for installing various linux distros in > > containers. > > > > I have used it to create a instance of ubuntu 18.04 on my Debian 12 > > desktop system. My scanner driver (which comes as a .deb) installed > > OK and with the addition of some packages from ubuntu 18.04 it runs > > without any problem. > > > > The nice thing about the distrobox container is that you can run a > > program in it that is in your normal $HOME environment of the parent > > system. It's only all the libraries and support files that are > > 'virtualised'. > > > > Also, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2029 so I have a few years when > > it should continue to 'just work'. :-) > > ah, ok! :) >
??? What I know about Ubuntu: - Debian based - Each April and October a release - The April release of even years, as 2024, 2022 2020 and 2018 have Long Time Support - LTS is five years Anyone to back up the above "Ubuntu 18.04 is support until 2029"? > songbird Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
