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Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

10 pointsby 1h agofrostyard.github.io
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One of the things that Windows really got right is WSL2. I drive an atomic Linux distro for daily use, but wanted a way to develop with multiple different distros with that same WSL UX. NSL is my answer. It is a faithful reproduction of the developer experience, powered by a single VM that hosts one or more systemd-nspawn containers with your development instances. Host file edits and port sharing come along for the ride, just like WSL. Take a look and tell me what you think... It's yet another step in my long journey to keep my host installation free from all the changing and breaking dev dependencies that force a reinstall every few months.
17m agoHN ↗

IS it LXC containers or docker? Or are you running a custom chroot namespace setup?

14m agoHN ↗

Haven't checked the actual project but he does state he uses systemd-nspawn. Which is it's own kind of container runtime.

4m agoHN ↗

He runs a systemd-nspawnd container in a "small vm", so neither really?

16m agoHN ↗

The project is cool, but please use human written text.

The website's Claudisms are unbearable.

10m agoHN ↗

This is most useful to people who run Linux as their daily driver so rather than saying its like WSL can you explain what it offers that existing Linux containers do not?

Its also sounds different from WSL which I thought is a VM rather than a container.

It's yet another step in my long journey to keep my host installation free from all the changing and breaking dev dependencies that force a reinstall every few months.

Something that also require a bit of explanation. What do you do that makes this such a common problem.

9m agoHN ↗

So you've just basically reimplemented LXC?

2m agoHN ↗

There's already Distrobox, which does exactly the same thing but isn't slop.