Running (Almost) Anything in LXC: Sound

Posted on Sat 16 January 2021 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with LXC • 3 min read

Some of the X applications I run in LXC make sounds. Now, I find alert sounds horribly distracting so I turn them off, but for some containerized applications I want to actually play sound.

Examples include the Spotify Linux client (which I run in its own LXC container because it …


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Running (Almost) Anything in LXC: X applications

Posted on Sat 09 January 2021 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with LXC • 3 min read

I occasionally want to run X applications in an LXC container. Sometimes that’s because they’re not open source and I need to run them for work, like Zoom. Sometimes it’s an open source X application that doesn’t work splendidly well on the Ubuntu release that I …


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Running (Almost) Anything in LXC: The Basics

Posted on Mon 28 December 2020 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with LXC • 4 min read

LXC is part of my standard Linux desktop toolbox, and I use it daily. I have done tutorials about this before, one of which you can find on YouTube (courtesy of linux.conf.au) and GitHub, but it’s about time I included this in a series of articles.

My …


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Add depth! Stereoscopic imagery for everyone

Posted on Fri 06 November 2020 in talk-submissions • Tagged with Conference, Stereoscopy • 3 min read

A talk I submitted to linux.conf.au 2021.


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I Don’t Think This Means What You Think It Means: Red Herrings in OpenStack

Posted on Thu 22 October 2020 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

My talk from the Open Infrastructure Summit, October 2020.


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