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Introducing Modcache and Modmanager
If you're the kind of smart arse who already knows how our Docker mods work under the hood, you can skip the next section, but if not then I'm afraid it's necessary reading to…
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New and Improved For 2025
As we approach the end of the year we thought we would take the opportunity to take a look back at some of the things we've achieved in 2024 and how they benefit you now and in…
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Why Can't You Just Implement <Thing I Want>?
It's a common refrain: "Why can't you just implement this feature that would make my life easier? It's not even that hard, it's just this environment variable or this bit of init…
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Our Support Policy
We maintain a lot of images, which are used by a lot of people, on a lot of platforms, using a lot of tools, and it's not always immediately clear which of those many combinations…
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Docker Team Changes
As you may already know, Docker Inc. is sunsetting Free team organizations. The Linuxserver organization is safe, as it is "Sponsored OSS". This is a program Docker introduced…
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Brand New
You can find the live version of this document on our docs pages here If you use our base images for your own projects, or fork our downstream images to modify them, you're…
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How Is Container Formed?
One of the questions we get asked pretty regularly is: "How do I customise/modify/otherwise make use of one of your images?". Now, some of this is already covered in our…
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Taking The ZimaBoard For A Spin
Full disclosure before we start: Icewhale sent us a number of ZimaBoard units to test out, with a mixture of accessories, without any conditions attached. The following blog post…
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Anatomy of an Issue
We have a lot of containers and a lot of users across a lot of platforms, which means that any time we update an image there's a chance it's going to break for some, many, or all…
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Deciding on a new logo by abusing @everyone
It was time for a new logo, and the one above is what we finally decided on. Some people say it looks like the Firefox logo, while some people say what has an otter got to do with…