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Fabio Rehm
Personal blog · fabiorehm.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Fabio Rehm's personal blog at fabiorehm.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Running GUI apps with Docker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts about running GUI apps and desktop software in Docker containers, and about using LXC containers as a Vagrant provider. They are cited as alternatives to VMs and sandboxes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineer
Most-linked posts?
- Running GUI apps with Docker5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-10-08
- /blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagrant/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-03
What Hacker News says?
Well there’s docker. You’d have to expose X to the container ( http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-d... ) Or https://www.flatpak.org/ Edit: hmm apparently there’s also https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
on “We are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to open source”Submitted Running GUI apps with Docker as a story · 123 points
HN discussionWhat about using Vagrant with the [vagrant-lxc plugin]( http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagran... )?
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagrant/
on “Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions”Submitted Ventriloquist - A tool that combines docker and vagrant to set up environments as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt is possible to use docker/lxc as a Vagrant provider. This means when you run 'vagrant up', your 'machine' could be a lxc container instead of a VirtualBox VM. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/404 http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagran...
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/28/lxc-provider-for-vagrant/
on “Docker 0.4.0 release note”Submitted Crib: Just Enough Devcontainers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMaybe you can use docker instead? http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-d... https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
on “Ask HN: Best Linux sandbox?”Was reading this the other day: http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-d...
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
on “Wrapping Desktop Apps with Docker”Stick with docker if possible, you will get more performance among other benefits. Check excellent Phusion's base image [0] if you need (pardon me) "container like VM". For the gui: Docker has native Kitematic app [1], but not sure about state on linux. I would recommend you to check Shipyard project [2] as Docker Gui Docker also support containerized X11 desktop apps [3]. [0] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-do…
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/
on “Ask HN: Is there an container based alternative to virtualbox/vmware player?”