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		nnq on March 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd e... > jail-based FreeBSD VPSs Isn't this called "shared FreeBSD hosting with shell access"? Like http://djangoeurope.com/ used to be, I think (I see they're Debian based now)...

Sanddancer on March 31, 2014 [–]

No. FreeBSD jails are different from a chroot jail -- it's much closer than OpenVZ than to something like Xen. You're running the core OS's kernel, but you have your own userland, namespaces, process space, etc.

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