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Red Hat’s open source Podman container engine now has a full-fledged desktop interface. The desktop “simplifies the creation, management, and deployment of containers, while abstracting the underlying configuration, making it a lightweight, efficient alternative for container management, reducing the administrative overhead,” promised https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithund/, Red Hat vice president and general manager for developer tools and programs, https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/23/podman-desktop-now-generally-available.

In its own Linux distributions, Red Hat offers Podman https://thenewstack.io/check-out-podman-red-hats-daemon-less-docker-alternative/ for running containers. Docker also has ahttps://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ for its own container engine, so time will tell how Red Hat’s desktop interface will compare. The Red Hat desktop can work not only with the Podman container engine itself but also with Docker and https://github.com/lima-vm/lima, a container engine for Mac.