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by qwertyuiop924 3821 days ago
...Wait. Did you just say they're developing LXC? That is hilarious.

They're SmartOS! They're on the Solaris codebase! They've had containers since 2005! Literally before it existed, it had containers!
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melloc 3813 days ago
linc01n's comment was a little unclear. SmartOS isn't doing anything with the LXC protect. What SmartOS has done is revived the branded zones code from Sun for emulating Linux system calls. This means that you can run Docker containers on SmartOS as zones, as well as use dtrace, mdb and ptools on your Linux binaries. You can read up some more here:

https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones

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qwertyuiop924 3812 days ago
I saw Bryan Cantrill's talk on that! It did sound neat.
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