[ale] Docker containers as a desktop environment

[savithari at gmail.com (Narahari 'n' Savitha)]

Bingo.  I have been searching for this one too but no luck.  I am willing
to live with from-a-given image approach but I need to be able to build my
own so I can know what goes in.

If anyone has any pointers it will greatly help.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> One thing I haven't been able to find is how to create a docker
> container in the first place from scratch.  Every tutorial has you
> downloading someone's container from somewhere.
>
> If I wanted to experiment with running let's say a browser within a
> container on any OS, where can you go to find out how to build all of
> that?  At the moment I just spin up VM's but if containers really are a
> little lighter on the system than a full VM, I wouldn't mind trying it
> out just for browsers.
>
> It seems to me, though, there's a slight inflexibility in the docker
> method versus VM method in terms of updating and/or modifications.  For
> example, if I create a brand new VM, install a bare OS and then install
> the browser, I can possibly go back in later and add something I forgot
> (e.g. Java, flash, etc.) just by using the guest OS's install methods.
> The new data is merged in right away and the next time I start that VM
> those changes are made.  My understanding with the Docker method is that
> everything has to be installed either in the original image or on the
> fly by the docker container script as the image starts but, again, this
> is relying on someone else's docker-ready stuff.
>
> If anyone has pointers on this kind of thing I'd like to see them and
> try it out.
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