Wanted to ask this right at beginning, but decided to figure out how stuff works before. So if I understand correctly, you run Ubuntu on server, on Ubuntu there’s Docker, on Docker there’s another Ubuntu, and on this Ubuntu there’s Discourse. That’s a lot of Ubuntus for me. Why don’t just install Di…

Why does Discourse have to use Docker?

codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 12 مارس 2015، 9:06م 18

Debian is horrible. We don’t recommend it. You can’t even run Docker on it for the same reason.

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