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A brief look at FreeBSD

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100 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.526s | source
1. runjake ◴[12 Nov 25 19:48 UTC] No.45905383[source]▶
It looks like current versions of FreeBSD support Linux containers and podman. Can anyone speak to the experience and performance there?
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2. sunshine-o ◴[12 Nov 25 20:36 UTC] No.45906256[source]▶
Depending on what you are doing and what you wanna run you don't really need it. For most use cases, just `pkg install -j` (-j is for jail) what you want. Or just put the Linux binary (prefereably the musl/alpine one) in a thin jail it usually works.

I haven't tried podman in FreeBSD yet because from what I understand you can only run it as root right now, so it kind of defeat the purpose.