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by gwgarry 4742 days ago
> The recent (say, last decade) disparity has been lack of mature containers on the platform of choice, which is Linux for most cloud-based projects. I don't know many people who would switch their projects to run on FreeBSD or Solaris just to use containers instead of VMs.

OpenVZ. VServer. Many people did that in the old days. Before Xen it was all about FreeBSD.