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Re:Memory Deduplication: The Curse that Keeps on Giving [video] by grundprinzip on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:09AM (#13348993)
Containers are just namespaces, mount, user, pin, and network namespaces.

The reason why chroot is not enough is that you want to allow a different pace of using certain dependencies is different applications. In a way its similar to how Mac OS packages applications as they all ship their own prefix root so to say.

Re:Memory Deduplication: The Curse that Keeps on Giving [video] by voidz on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:20AM (#13349012)
s/pin/pid/ namespace - sorry, just correcting this for newcomers.