I was being encouraged to learn programming by my brother-in-law, so when I was going through the lessons in the course he bought there was a section on Linux. At first I was thinking on how would I be able to install in a virtual machine but my brother-in-law in all his wisdom said “why don’t you dual-boot”. After some planning so I don’t nuke my hard drive and flashing LMDE as my first distro I installed Linux and did the rest of the course there.
I am working on creating deb/rpm packages for an OSS tool I use. So far, I have been manually testing each deb/rpm in a virtualbox live cd version of that OS but it’s tedious to do that for every release. This is a GUI tool, I basically just need to confirm that the apt install goes correctly and the program can actually...
I think there would be a way to test it with docker, you could find a image that has systemd installed and use something like distrobox to test it with the GUI.
If you are using Ubuntu and disabling snaps, might as well use something else. Snaps are basically the selling point of Ubuntu and any other distro based on it will provide a better experience if you don’t want them.
Even if you do download the snaps from elsewhere you are still locked in with the Canonical repository for updates, with it being basically hard coded and with no alternatives. Even more, snaps are straight up a worst experience then flatpak with all their quirks like the loopback devices and the automatic updates.
what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
Make sure to use your freebie (beehaw.org)
Earth has a cold (lemmy.ml)
I wasn't in a hurry anyway (lemmy.world)
Testing packaging which targets multiple distributions?
I am working on creating deb/rpm packages for an OSS tool I use. So far, I have been manually testing each deb/rpm in a virtualbox live cd version of that OS but it’s tedious to do that for every release. This is a GUI tool, I basically just need to confirm that the apt install goes correctly and the program can actually...
Everyone loves snaps (lemmy.ml)
I Know What You Download (via torrent) (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)
I guess this settles it for me. What VPN should I go for?
Time for the ship to sail (lemmy.world)