[sitkack]

Almost every problem that containers solved, was solved with EclipseBSD http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.8... way back in 1998

[menage]

Yes, the concept of resource control wasn't new. Getting it from a research project to the form where it was production-ready and supported for inclusion in the mainline tree of Google's kernel of choice took a bit longer.

[sitkack]

I used EclipseBSD, it was production ready. The community wasn't receptive at the time for getting it into the mainline FreeBSD tree.

For this I applaud Google for making it in, even when the masses don't see the point.