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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by geofft on Saturday January 16, 2016 @12:24PM (#10915909)
Which was, as it happens, the reason chroot was invented (to test the installer of newer versions of UNIX without having a brand-new physical system). Better tooling around chroot is absolutely useful.

I guess it's a misnomer to use the word "container", since that usually means things like Linux containers with security isolation almost as good as OS virtualization.

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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by iMil on Saturday January 16, 2016 @01:11PM (#10916127)
Right, the "container" word is now vastly associated to docker, yet I picked a word I know IT people will get and which is generic enough. I'll think on an alternative buzzword ;) Thanks for your support!
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Re:Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD... by ChristianBundy on Saturday January 16, 2016 @01:52PM (#10916288)
The word you're looking for is "chroot".
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