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0 pointsshatteredgate4y ago0 comments

Sorry, then I must be remembering some other issue. The effort to port docker to BSD seems to have disappeared.

>And yes, having to use root is a major issue. Looks fixable though.

AFAIK it took a long time to get this to work on Linux, there are a lot of security issues that it can cause.

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trasz4y ago· 4 in thread

Docker is practically dead, no wonder if disappeared :-)

Many things are hellishly complicated in Linux, due to politics and technical difficulties. Case in point: when I’ve started to work on NFSv4 ACLs, support in Linux was “worked on”, there was a prototype. It was 12 years ago. In FreeBSD, full supper for NFSv4 ACLs, from file systems to userspace tools, shipped decade ago. In Linux it’s still not there.

shatteredgateOP4y ago

Docker wasn't dead 5 or 6 years ago when I heard about this. In my experience some things are easier to implement in Linux and some are easier to implement in BSD. I don't particularly care for BSD's internal politics either, such as the licensing issues mentioned elsewhere here.

trasz4y ago

It might be because it would require reimplementing all the system-specific Docker parts from scratch. Not sure though.

BSD doesn't really have any licensing issues, thanks to BSD license, but politics is directly related to project size. In FreeBSD it's pretty much unnoticeable, but in Linux it can be a huge deal.

nix234y ago

> It was 12 years ago. In FreeBSD, full supper for NFSv4 ACLs

You are right, but ironically we have to thank Microsoft for that ;)

trasz4y ago

Why, apart from inventing them (in Windows NT) in the first place?

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