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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by handrous on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:09PM (#29193851)
Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only. On other platforms it runs in a Linux VM. The host for Docker, then, is Linux no matter where you are.
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by zokier on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:14PM (#29194907)
> Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only.

Docker hasn't supported LXC since 2016, and stopped relying on it in 2014

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-0-9-introducing-execution...

Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by handrous on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:38AM (#29201210)
I thought the name for the collection of kernel features was LXC, I didn't realize (until just now) that was the name only for the also-kernel-level wrapper for those features, which name does not cover the features themselves. That is, I didn't realize that LXC is to Cgroups+Namespaces as Libvirt is to KVM—I thought LXC, as a label, covered the whole feature-set—but regardless, it's still married to Linux kernel features and runs on other platforms under virtualization, no?
Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by zokier on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:42PM (#29206548)
> it's still married to Linux kernel features and runs on other platforms under virtualization, no?

Actually no. At least on Windows Docker can do native Windows containers too

https://poweruser.blog/lightweight-windows-containers-using-...