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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by howeyc on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:25PM (#10866520)
Market share.

FreeBSD has had jails for a long time and people using FreeBSD in production have been using them for a long time.

Linux just has a lot more attention.

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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by digi_owl on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:59PM (#10866781)
Another thing is that with the BSDs companies can do like Sony has done, fork and keep proprietary.

With Linux being GPL, shipping a product using it means the driver code pretty much has to be released (unless you go to the lengths that Nvidia has done to keep a shim between the kernel and their GPU code).

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Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way by skreuzer on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:54PM (#10867228)
While I am sure that Sony has code that they keep proprietary, its worth noting that thy have contributed quite a bit back to FreeBSD (AVX support comes to mind) as well as LLVM.
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