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		thelastparadise on May 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your ... So it's basically a chroot?

FireInsight on May 15, 2023 | [–]

Well, as much as containers are a chroot. It's also heavily integrated with the host system.

qbasic_forever on May 15, 2023 | [–]

It passes through enough of your root filesystem so you can run systemd and a whole new pid 1 inside the 'chroot'.

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