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Docker runs on FreeBSD too, and it'll hopefully run even better in the future once the results from https://wiki.freebsd.org/DockerHackDay2017 come in.

FreeBSD jails can't just be easily ported to any platform, as they're not designed for portability - kernel-features being portable wasn't really a thing back in the late 1990s when jails were developed. They're designed to contain software (in fact, the title of the original paper is quite demonstrably "confining the omnipotent root"), which is why they're the first actual type of container (chroots original purpose isn't known by anyone but Bill Joy and while he isn't saying anything much on the subject, its first documented use that I know of was building BSD in a clean enviroment).



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