alt Hacker NewsDoes this support Linux yet? When I previously looked it did not (the reason being that they were already using VMs on Windows/macOS but not on Linux). Every time I see an announcement I think "great, they must've added Linux now then", but the linked pages always have Windows + macOS instructions but not Linux.
All the open GH issues about supporting Linux that I subscribed to have gone unresponded to.
OpenShell looks like a good alternative, but it still has "Do not use in production" plastered all over the website, which doesn't fill me with confidence yet
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I was able to install it on Fedora from the .rpm distributed on their GitHub releases: https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/releases
I think Linux has a better solution than Docker.
I wrote a tool to use `bubblewrap` to containerize any agent (at least all the agents I've used a couple of times), and bind mount the system stuff read-only, so the agent has your "usual" environment, but they can only see the project. Their history persists (either through a bind mount or a "shadow" copy of the history that only the wrapped agent sees), the agent can still create and manage containers of its own using podman's rootless mode, etc. It's nearly instant to start because it's just a namespace (plus a few copied files for the container support and session history); no container needs to be built/fetched/updated/whatever. bubblewrap is extremely well-tested as it is used by flatpak and several other large projects, so I trust it quite a bit (more than I trust Docker).
I also hit the same issue recently. No Linux and no Windows on arm. AI sandboxing has a lot of options but none feel complete just yet. It's hard to commit to something, especially if reviewing tools to aide in company policies.
Regardless, I'm hoping something that isn't behind a login screen is going to win out.
It must be a joke that this tool is not supported on linux yet, although docker is built on top of linux containers. Shame on docker.