Entries tagged with 'containers'

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008:

Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative.
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting [...]

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007:

Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it’s not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching.
Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I’m a very disappointed in [...]

Links of interest for 3 August 2007:

HOWTO: Move a Solaris Containers How To Guides - Details how to move a container from one host to another using functionality already in Solaris Express and due in Solaris 10.
HOWTO: Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers - A basic guide that demonstrates the use of ZFS in conjunction [...]

Novell and Red Hat have concrete plans to build “container” virtualization into their Linux products. They’re already working on Xen, but now they like the idea of presenting a single OS as many using “containers”, thus reducing the overhead and increasing performance. Hmmm, this sounds remarkably familiar.


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