LinuxKit VS Moby

Another project that aims to deliver this is Linuxkit (https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit). All the components they ship are written in memory safe languages (usually Go) and run as containers under containerd. You can build a custom image very easily, fully defined as a YAML file. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Docker-the-company maintained https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

LF-Edge EVE project leverages Linuxkit to create custom OSs for Edge Devices which in turn leverages Containers as Lego Blocks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Behind the scenes Docker Desktop for Mac spawns a linuxkit VM with a bit of extra stuff like NFS to enable mounting Mac paths into containers. In the Docker Desktop settings you'll find the current resource assignment for that VM. That is pretty much reserved for docker so that it does not have to compete with MacOS processes for available resources. Source: over 2 years ago

That said... You might want to check out linuxkit. Source: over 2 years ago

Having been featured in our February 2023, and January 2024 Release Radars, Moby is the original Linux Container runtime. This new version adds a bunch of changes to the Docker CLI and Moby itself with additional features. There's bug fixes and enhancements, with the main thing for users to be on the look out for containers that were created using Docker Engine 25.0.0. These containers might have duplicate MAC... - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago

Docker itself is open-source, and has slowly been broken down into modular components that are themselves open-source. For example, most of what "run this Docker container" does has been extracted out into containerd, which is Apache licensed and used by lots of things. The Docker CE engine is now based on Moby, also Apache license, and the docker command line tool is also Apache licensed. I expect these tools to... Source: about 1 year ago

This is probably the wrong link. The website is: https://mobyproject.org/ Which I flipped through and also watched the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRR0g0kO4o&t=1s I still have zero clue what this is, how to use it, who it is for, and how it works. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Did guix install docker, but this does not produce the docker command. Docker package points to mobyproject.org which looks like something that has to do with containerd and not docker. How to install docker? Source: over 1 year ago

Not entirely correct. All these projects implement the open standards that are the foundation of Docker: Moby. Source: over 1 year ago