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Re:Joyent Public Cloud EOL by throw0101a on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:34PM (#20117562)
> Joyent was a public cloud provider, that offered a VPS/Container style offering built on Illuminos (open source Solaris).

When they first started they used FreeBSD jails IIRC.

The main selling point is/was being closer to the hardware and thus getting better hardware utilization. Virtualizing at the machine level was a lot slower (especially before Intel VT-x and AMD-V came along) and so one wouldn't lose (say) 30% right off the top:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualisation

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Re:Joyent Public Cloud EOL by cbsmith on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:39AM (#20125650)
> When they first started they used FreeBSD jails IIRC.

Nope. Solaris Zones.

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Re:Joyent Public Cloud EOL by jen20 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @10:04AM (#20132423)
Incorrect. FreeBSD was in use first, as founder David Young’s own history [1] describes. OpenSolaris and zones came later.

[1]: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/davidpaulyoung.com/2016/06/17...

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Re:Joyent Public Cloud EOL by cbsmith on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:46AM (#20147804)
Hrm.. I don't even remember them having a BSD jailed offering, but I'll take your evidence over my lack of evidence.
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