It doesn't sound like something FreeBSD would do, but I wonder how much more traction Jails would get, if it was renamed to "FreeBSD Containers."
The name Jails always struck me as a more appropriate name for RBAC or similar.
It's sometimes easy for those of us who've been here several decades to forget that a vast percentage of people in the industry now were too young to remember, let alone be aware of the FreeBSD <=4.6 days.
When Jails were implemented this 'feature' was called OS Level Virtualization. When Docker was introduced in 2014 it renamed itself from that OS Level Virtualization to Containers and it got a lot of traction.
Linux had earlier attempts at OS Level Virtualization like OpenVZ for example (used that in the past too).
The World also had a lot of other 'container' technologies before Docker such as
- FreeBSD Jails
- Solaris Zones/Containers
- IBM WPAR
- HP Virtual Machines
- HP SRP Containers
... but for some reason Docker was 'the thing' instead of them - while doing generally the same or less better.
It doesn't sound like something FreeBSD would do, but I wonder how much more traction Jails would get, if it was renamed to "FreeBSD Containers."
The name Jails always struck me as a more appropriate name for RBAC or similar.
It's sometimes easy for those of us who've been here several decades to forget that a vast percentage of people in the industry now were too young to remember, let alone be aware of the FreeBSD <=4.6 days.