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I don't know .. "You may have heard of Docker, well this is essentially the same thing, except it’s been around a bit longer." ... really?

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Linux containers have been around for decades. Docker made the concept popular and more approachable.
  • rconti 8y ago
    A quick wikipedia search says Solaris Containers date back to 2004 but Linux Containers "only" 2008. Unless you're lumping chroot jails under the "containers" header.
• indigodaddy 8y ago
  Yes, LXC (the author meant LXC for "LXE" I think; the ProxMox appliance believe currently uses KVM and LXC (Proxmox previously used OpenVZ for containers, but that (OpenVZ) has lost much of its Linux OS support)) has definitely been around longer than Docker. Docker originally used LXC as its container tech.
• larssorenson 8y ago
  Yes, the author is specifically refering to KVM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine) which was merged into the Linux kernel in 2007. Whereas Docker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)) was first released in 2013.
  • indigodaddy 8y ago
    Believe that the author was actually specifically referring to LXC (misnamed as "LXE" in the article), with his Docker reference.
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