References

Here i would like to collect links related to the purpose of dockapp (dynamic desktop)

Existing competitors

• Subuser - Securing the Linux desktop with Docker: https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser
• Xpra + Docker: https://github.com/rogaha/docker-desktop /SandboxedApps/Sandbox
• Stevedore: containerize your development environments: https://github.com/jpetazzo/stevedore.git
• Qubes is an OS designed to provide strong security for desktop computing using Security by Compartmentalization approach (based on Xen): https://www.qubes-os.org/

by different approach to packaging

• Gnome Sandbox app: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps, https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects
• Lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework (FreeBSD & ~Linux): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
• GNU Guix functional package manager: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html
• Nix functional package manager and NixOS: http://nixos.org/nix/ http://nixos.org
• GoboLinux redefined file system hierachie: http://www.gobolinux.org
• CDE: Automatically create portable Linux applications: http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html
• Packaging method: 1 app == 1 file: klik ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_(packaging_method) ) outdated with Portable Linux Apps ( http://portablelinuxapps.org/ )
• portable apps and SuperDebs (RUNZ in Super Ubuntu): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_OS#RUNZ_Framework
• Zero_Install (distributing and packaging software for multiple operating systems): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Install

Maybe also:

• Autopackage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopackage
• Listaller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listaller

Desktop (X11/Xephyr/Xpra/GUI) & docker

• Alternatives to ssh X11-forwarding for Docker containers: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25334301
• Docker Containers on the Desktop: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/
• Xpra: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xpra
• Xpra + Docker: https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Usage/Docker
• Google chrome with pepper flash and pulseaudio: https://github.com/ezmac/docker-chrome-pepper-pulseaudio.git
• Sandboxing proprietary applications with Docker (via VNC): http://www.jann.cc/2014/09/06/sandboxing_proprietary_applications_with_docker.html
• Container Cluster Manager from Google (http://kubernetes.io): https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/kubernetes

Accelerated graphics/OpenGL/3D

GLX forking:

• VirtualGL: http://virtualgl.org/
• Primus: https://github.com/amonakov/primus

Docker:

• Best practices for writing Dockerfiles: https://docs.docker.com/articles/dockerfile_best-practices/
• Linking Containers Together: https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerlinks/
• phusion docker image (:base currently sits on top of this one): https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker.git
• App Container Specification and Tooling: https://github.com/appc/spec, rkt - App Container runtime: https://github.com/coreos/rkt

Skype / docker

• TODO

Video

• TODO

Audio (ALSA/PulseAudio or apulse):

• Found/detected audio devices: dmesg | grep -i audio, PCI devices: sudo lspci | grep -i audio
• Check sound (ALSA) modules: sudo lsmod | grep '^snd' and devices: ls -l /dev/snd
• AC'97 support: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-intel8x0
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
• PA/ALSA-wrapper (which is currently used for skype:i386): https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse.git
• Vagrantfile: sound work on host Mac host and guest Ubuntu USING OSS4: https://github.com/GeoffreyPlitt/vagrant-audio

VirtualBox-related

• TODO

Further (collections of) Dockerfiles:

• TODO

Suitable Linux Platforms:

• boot2docker Linux

Misc

• Tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer

X11

• Find a free X11 display number: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520704/find-a-free-x11-display-number
• starting Xorg directly may lead to black inaccessible display whereas startx seems to work fine (http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/startx.1.html)

Wayland (MIR)

• Wayland (display server protocol): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)

Vagrant

• Vagrant Provisioning: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/index.html
• Creating A Base Box: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/boxes/base.html
• Docker-friendly Vagrant base boxes: https://github.com/phusion/open-vagrant-boxes.git
• A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendliness http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/ https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
• Using vagrant to run virtual machines with desktop environment: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20024671
• Vagrant reverse port forwarding: http://stackoverflow.com/q/16244601

CoreOS:

• CoreOS: https://coreos.com
• Based on ChromeOS: https://github.com/coreos/scripts
• rkt - App Container (https://github.com/appc/spec) runtime: https://github.com/coreos/rkt
• CoreOS Vagrant: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-vagrant
• Vagrant, Docker & CoreOS: https://ashleyclarke.me/vagrant-docker-coreos/
• No VB GA/kernel modules in CoreOS: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22642197
• CoreOS + Nvidia: http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2014/11/04/coreos-with-nvidia-cuda-gpu-drivers/
• CoreOS + VB GA: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/yungsang/coreos-vboxguest/ ?

x11vnc & Virtual Xvfb (headless/fake x11 display?):

• http://www.jann.cc/2014/09/06/sandboxing_proprietary_applications_with_docker.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/229989/how-to-setup-x11vnc-to-access-with-graphical-login-screen
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X11vnc