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ysleepy on May 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Truth about Linux 4.6

Docker is just a beefed up wrapper around groups of processes on linux.

cm3 on May 15, 2016 [–]

I know, but I've heard that it can run Linux on OS X, so I was wondering if it now boots kernels as well. Basically, Docker is ezjail with financial backing and PR.

ysleepy on May 15, 2016 | [–]

On OSX its using a port of FreeBSDs virtualization bhyve aka xhyve to boot a Docker linux.

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