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Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by bartekrutkowski on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:33PM (#45839281)
In what sense? FreeBSD had containers before anyone heard about Docker ;)
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by righthand on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:39PM (#45840779)
Yeah talk about reinventing the wheel so Linux people don’t have to learn a slightly different system (one that is ironically easier to use and better organized than Oci containers).
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by Gud on Thursday November 06, 2025 @05:14PM (#45841156)
Jails are not containers.
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday November 06, 2025 @07:54PM (#45842464)
By what definition would LXC be containers and jails not be?
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by irusensei on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:00PM (#45842499)
Jails are great but are not OCI-compliant.
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by jen20 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:13PM (#45842868)
So? They predate a standard which was basically extracted from Docker.
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by pstuart on Thursday November 06, 2025 @10:14PM (#45843210)
I think the OCI factor being noted here is the packaging not the containerized runtime.
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by bartekrutkowski on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:21AM (#45844242)
Then Podman for FreeBSD exists for a while too.
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview by irusensei on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:35PM (#45850122)
But it relied on Linux virtual machines didn't it?