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True, but one of the advantages of the BSDs is that they provide an alternative way of doing things. For FreeBSD, you have Jails with Pot and Potluck and other alternatives. It might not be the de facto way of doing things, but the BSDs have never really been keen on following the standard way at the cost of everything else.

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This is what has been scaring me about Linux in the last 10 years as it seems we have been talking mostly about containers & ended up in a strange place:

- a lot of project distribute a docker image or we have community "distributions" like linuxserver.io. But nothing come close to a good distribution package management so far,

- the security of containers is still very unclear, misunderstood & unequal,

- the ecosystem is now fragmented between docker, podman, etc.

- generally it feels like things have become more complicated !

We also now do see new generation (?) of distributions centered around containers like CoreOS, MicroOS or even Silverblue.

My questions would be: is the BSD world trying go move this way too with bsdpot & potluck or consider this is not the way to go or this just a distraction and Ports will always be the way to distribute software?

I’ve used jails since FeeeBSD 7 or 8 and love them. For me, the power of Docker is less about the OCI format (whatever it’s called) and more about Dockerfiles. If Jails could work against Dockerfiles then that would be a massive step forward.

Though to be fair I haven’t tried Pot. Used ez_jails a lot in the past, as well as rolling my own build scripts. So maybe I’m missing a trick?

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