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📦 Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers? | @vermaden

「 IMHO the term Containers is not reserved to Linux Podman/Docker solutions. The term Containers was in the BSD/UNIX land long before Docker or Podman saw any light of day – and yet – now the new kids on the block are to decide what to call a Container or not?

The FreeBSD Jails were introduced in year 2000 as a Container technology – some called it improved chroot(8) on steroids also 」

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 · Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?I believe its not the first time – that when I post some article and it contains FreeBSD Jails and Containers in one sentence – it sparks vigorous discussions about it. They were these …

We have a new post up on the BRIC newsletter about how we're using tools like Docker Desktop to solve some problems specific to science: sharing your work with other researchers to replicate, and navigating getting the software running in the first place when each institution is different.

bric.digital/newsletter/contai

The BRIC Newsletter · Containerized ScienceAn introduction to how BRIC is using software containerization in the service of science.

Documentation in operating systems is cool. It is possible to extend and rewrite utilities as time goes on, as #freebsd proves. You can still have cool utilities, like #containers and #zfs and #hypervisors, good docs for them and a consistent base system.

I dunno where I am going with this, other than wishing I didn't have to peruse the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki for everything when I get stuck, and instead could just "man xyz" and get good answers, speaking as #nixos user.

🔍 Looking for #Linux #Containers for your CI/CD pipeline? #foundata built a collection of OCI images with

✅ functional systemd (not just a shim!)
✅ unprivileged execution support – perfect for tools like #Podman.

👉 Explore all Integration Test Target (ITT) container files on github.com/orgs/foundata/repos

💡 Also ideal for #Ansible #Molecule testing, see them in action with a collection: github.com/foundata/ansible-co

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