Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Windows Features for Developers

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls.

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How To Install LXD on Debian 11 Linux

You can install LXD pure-container hypervisor on Debian 11 Linux to run an unmodified version of Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Alpine, Arch and many other Linux distro. You can mimic AWS or different cloud instance types with LXD for testing and deployment purposes on your development machine. You can also run a GUI app such as Firefox completely isolated using LXD for security or privacy reasons. Let us see how to set up and use LXD on the Debian Linux 11 server or desktop.

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How do I list lxc snapshots for LXD on Linux?

I explained a long time ago how to take LXD instance snapshots using the lxc command. Today I will talk about how to list lxc snapshots and automatically purge those snapshots from LXD to free up disk space on Linux operating systems.

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How to delete container with lxc (LXD) command on Linux

Want to delete LXD based container with lxc command on Linux? Try these simple tips. To delete LXD instances/container and snapshots, we use the lxc delete command. However, the container/instance must be stopped, and all snapshots must be removed before removing the Linux container with the lxc command.

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How to backup and restore LXD containers

Now that I set up an LXD container, how do I backup and restore LXD containers running on Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora/CentOS Linux server?

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Install LXD on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using apt

How can I install LXD pure-container hypervisor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux to runs unmodified Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/Fedora/Arch Linux operating systems at incredible speed? How do I set up and use LXD on the Ubuntu Linux server? How do I install LXD on Ubuntu cloud server?

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How to Set Up and Use LXD on CentOS 8.x / RHEL 8.x

LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions. How do I set up and install LXD on a CentOS 8.x or RHEL 8.x server?

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How to add or mount directory in LXD (Linux container)

I have two LXD containers running. One is for Nginx, and another is for processing data. I need to share data between two containers. How do I add or mount a shared directory between two?

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How to create snapshots with lxc command for LXD

I need to save the state of my existing app running on LXD before I push new Python-based app. How do I create snapshots with lxc command for LXD based Linux container?

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How to update LXD container Ubuntu image from 16.04 to 18.04

I run my app inside Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS lxd Linux container. To upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 LTS container, I run do-release-upgrade command, but I am getting the error message that read as "Must be connected to a terminal." How do I fix this problem to upgrade from Ubuntu Linux 16.04 to 18.04 image?

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