Toolbox is now Toolbx

Toolbox is being renamed to Container Toolbx or just Toolbx.

I had always been uncomfortable by the generic nature of the term toolbox and people keep complaining that it’s terribly difficult to search for. Recently, we have been trying to improve the online presence of the project by creating a website and a Twitter handle, and it’s impossible to find any decent Internet real estate with anything toolbox.

It looks like dropping the penultimate character from words to form names is a thing these days, hence Toolbx.

We haven’t yet renamed the Git repository or anything in the code or the binary or the manuals. Renaming the binary, for example, has implications for existing containers, and we don’t want to cause any needless disruption for users. So, those will gradually happen over time with all the necessary compatibility aliases and such.

Meanwhile, Fedora Magazine has published an interview with yours truly about Toolbx that talks about the history, latest improvements, future direction, and various other aspects of the project.

It should be obvious, but the Toolbx website was made by Jakub Steiner.