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All you really need is podman, toolbx, and the Strix Halo toolbox images from https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes. Then you just download your ggufs and hand them to llama-server. Yes, there are other solutions that are a bit more hand-holdy, but if you already know how to use docker/podman and just want to get something working in ", "context": "", "use_case": "container dev environments", "switched_from": "", "story": "My first impressions on the ROCm and Strix Halo"}, {"id": 745791553, "item_id": 46611972, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611972", "by": "lazylizard", "date": "2026-01-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "how about https://containertoolbx.org/ ?", "excerpt": "how about https://containertoolbx.org/ ? or https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox ?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Yolobox \u2013 Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir"}, {"id": 743543092, "item_id": 46471443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471443", "by": "Alupis", "date": "2026-01-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For CLI apps, you can use distrobox[5] or toolbx[6].", "excerpt": "GUI apps often come in Flatpak[1] these days - which are sandboxed[2] like you are expecting. Flathub[3] is the primary place to get GUI apps, but many distros also have their own app store too. Flatseal[4] is a GUI that allows you to mange the sandboxes/permissions. You can also manage them via cli if you prefer. For CLI apps, you can use distrobox[5] or toolbx[6]. 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I wrote the first commit to CoreOS's toolbox in 2014: https://github.com/coreos/toolbox/commit/dc4aa0b14bceafd6afaf144c54cf66156109e220 And then I read your comment and my first reaction was, oh, they typoed toolbox. But, nope, Red Hat created toolbx which confusingly has the CLI binary of `toolbox`: https://containertoolbx.org", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: NSL \u2013 WSL for Linux"}, {"id": 765176481, "item_id": 47823530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823530", "by": "bityard", "date": "2026-04-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All you really need is podman, toolbx, and the Strix Halo toolbox images", "excerpt": "If you just want to run models, most of TFA is taking the scenic route. All you really need is podman, toolbx, and the Strix Halo toolbox images from https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes. Then you just download your ggufs and hand them to llama-server. 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