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Replies for: Great article! I'm pretty jazzed about the upcoming Crostini/Linux containers-in-Chrome project. Hopefully that'll open up some doors for dev work.

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Peter Benjamin (they/them) • • Edited

Good call out. I should edit to add that section.

I tried Crostini when it came out in Dev Channel in v66. It was prohibitively lacking in 2 ways:

  1. They’re not docker containers. They’re LXC containers (different container format and runtime)
  2. There was no easy way of building LXC containers on chromebook. You can build the image off the chromebook, but then you have to figure out how to ship/deploy your LXC containers to the chromebook. There were hints of potentially being able to pull down LXC containers down from public registries, but I couldn’t get it to work.

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