[kwlug-disc] Epistemic humility and ZFS

Mikalai Birukou mb at 3nsoft.com
Sat Nov 8 13:17:52 EST 2025


>> What is the difference between an Incus and a Proxmox?
> Incus is LXC evolved, done right, not snap-ed (i.e. Canonical's snap).
>
> They say Proxmox can use LXC to run systems not as virtual machines.
> In time it'll be Incus, like TOFU with Terraform.
>
>   From a user perspective, Proxmox has nice GUI and clicky interfaces.
> In LXC, hence Incus, I ever used five-ish commands. And similar will be
> with Incus. Add two more around migrating in upgrades. Proxmox has
> some bunches of ready scripts to bring up things like CEPH instances.
> Proxmox can be viewed as this higher level, with its own decisions on
> that higher level, internally using five commands of lower level, container
> and vm handler, if you allow this rhetorical stretch.
>
> Just found this https://tadeubento.com/2024/replace-proxmox-with-incus-lxd/
> pointing that with addition GUI (in web) (finally), one may start to use
> not only in terminal.
>
> Additionally, there is IncusOS
> https://stgraber.org/2025/11/07/introducing-incusos/
> which may be compared to Proxmox OS (?), and a whole OS setup
> considerations.

Watching IncusOS video in Stephane's blog. Yep, Proxmox OS should be 
compared to IncusOS:

- there is a drop down in Proxmox GUI with some services (for/on boxes)
- there is "incus admin os service list" output in a tabulated form.





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