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containers... (docker etc) - nevyn - 05-16-2021

Hi all, just curious if the IRIX (freeware) community ever developed something similar to cgroups, LXC (aka docker, containerd, kubernetes and so on on Linux)

I know it might seem odd, but I did become aware a few years ago of UNIX equivalents such as Solaris' "Partitions" and AIX? had the concepts of "L-PARs" and "M-PARs", which may even have predated it (in fact i believe it was a concept in Plan9 before linux had it) so thought I'd ask for completeness.

Cheers

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RE: containers... (docker etc) - Raion - 05-16-2021

No, there's no such thing. If I did port something it'd either be jails or zones (BSD or Solaris).

Nobody even remotely has done anything kernel-related, much less expand the base OS. I'm working on neweoe and IRIX Community Edition, while SGUG's biggest fame is their RSE and the accompanying ports of RPM, microdnf and tinydnf (If I recall).

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RE: containers... (docker etc) - nevyn - 05-16-2021

TBH that's pretty much what I was expecting as an answer

well, except for the news about the new stuff! Let me know if I can help, I have some experience in CI/CD pipelines so maybe helping to setup some nightly build / tests may be useful?

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RE: containers... (docker etc) - Raion - 05-16-2021

All I need right now is test cases for the neweoe code: https://gitea.irixce.org/Raion/IRIX-neweoe -- basically patterns we can run awk, m4, grep, etc. through to ensure they work. The grep code needs a few fixes, but the diff and patch are well-tested on my machine and work swimmingly!

It's infeasible to do any kind of nightlies, but I appreciate the sentiment. When I start actually doing regular releases, I have a 16-CPU Origin 2000 in Canada to do the heavy lifting.

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