According to Wikipedia:
A Sandbox is a test environment (in the context of software development or web development), which isolates changes in the code, the result of experimentation, from the production environment itself….
Knowing the above we now know what it is about glimpse. In GNU / Linux As in other operating systems, there are development versions of many applications, and of course the developers invite you to try them to see how they behave in an environment other than the "laboratory".
Testing programs is something that many of us like, and sometimes those programs can be in alpha or beta version, this can cause problems in our system, and sometimes we must reinstall our OS, but for that we have to Glimpse , to test what we want without affecting our system.
With glimpse we will have a sandbox where to install programs in GNU / LINUX, test or development applications to be able to tinker without the problems that come with it.
The way of working glimpse It consists in that any application that is installed in it will be able to access the system data but when it intends to write or make changes, these will only be reflected only within the environment of glimpse, leaving our files safe.
To install glimpse en Ubuntu:
First we add the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glimpse-hackers/stable
Then we proceed to install:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install glimpse glimpse-profile-elementary glimpse-profile-ubuntu
Why not have something like this in our system? try it at least.
This interesting, it will take a look. Thanks for the tip 🙂
Well, many times one is a little suspicious of testing software because of the "catastrophes" that it can cause to the machine. Until now, the solution I had was to clone the disk and if the system is very thick, restore the image, but this sandbox seems like a great alternative. Thanks for the input
You * always * have to have a couple of recent versions of our system just in case, well there! ^ _ ^
The motto of the developers is interesting:
No virtualization overhead.
No clipboard struggle.
Not awkward window nesting.
No file access nightmare.
Just you and the unstable apps.
Host system intact. »
Although to be fair, that doesn't happen using Linux Containers (LXC, OpenVZ, etc.)
Awesome. Let's see if I can find it on Debian or install it from Lauchpad.
Oh, a very interesting tool.
It's good as an alternative, although I have so many chroot scripts that I don't know ...
And in Arch? Is there something similar?
Interesting
Very good I will see if it can be installed on debian.
Interesting. I usually use VirtualBox for testing, but it's like gunning for flies 😀 if you just want to try something fast and light. I'm going to investigate it better, see what it is about.