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Re:WTF is a container? by parito on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:49AM (#12723307)
The point of the LXC is, you get a full blown standalone linux, rather than a single process - this simplifies everything a lot, meaning you don't have to have that much documentation about it in the first place.
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Re:WTF is a container? by majewsky on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:32AM (#12723458)
Can you clarify what "full-blown standalone Linux" means? It sounds like running a separate kernel, but since we're talking containers rather than VMs, this can't be it.
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Re:WTF is a container? by Kubuxu on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:05AM (#12723559)
It is shared kernel, separate userspace.

It uses: X-namespaces (network, pid, user, ...) and cgroups to separate those userspaces from each other.

I have community server running debian in which there are 10+ LXC containers running in which people are given normal root access, one container per user.

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Re:WTF is a container? by majewsky on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:31PM (#12729964)
So it's the same as with Docker.
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