Comment by rattray
4 years ago
I really hope they build some kind of application registry, including listing projects that don't yet work on RavynOS, so that the community can see which packages are most in-demand, what % of apps that people want are supported, reviews from others on stability for the platform, etc.
Could bootstrap this by looking at everything in Homebrew (including casks) and sharing whether it seems to work on RavynOS yet (or whether it's ambiguous, and how you can help disambiguate).
The biggest gap from developers will be the lack of docker on freebsd.
Personally, I find that to be an asset not a failure.
You could do what docker does on the mac, put it in a linux vm.
This may be an issue for some developers, but not all. I’m a developer and I never use Docker.
GNU/Linux developers.
> lack of docker on freebsd
I'm using sysutils/docker on FreeBSD with DOCKER_HOST env var set to "ssh://user@linuxvm" where linuxvm is a local VM running on bhyve[1]. Part of local FreeBSD filesystem is shared with the Linux VM via virtio-9p passthrough. Everything plays together nicely.
nerdctl[2] works with sysutils/containerd. You can't run Linux images on FreeBSD kernel (Linux jails may be an option) but there are FreeBSD images. Pkgbase[3] aims to make FreeBSD more modular, divided in chunks smaller than "base", "ports", "src"; feasible for containers.
[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
[2] https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl
[3] https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase
Has anyone packaged this into a single, easy-to-use command/application? (Like "Docker for Mac")