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How much of a boost will this change by CentOS give to efforts to get Docker running on FreeBSD? I get the impression that many here are open to adopting FreeBSD but that Docker support is a non-negotiable requirement.

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I’m a big fan of FreeBSD (in fact, I was planning to install CentOS on a new storage server, but I’ll probably go back to FreeBSD instead). But, I imagine anyone wanting to run Docker on FreeBSD would want to be able to run Linux-based containers. In which case, you’d end up with a Mac like situation — you could have command line Docker communicating with a Docker daemon running in a Linux VM.

If that’s what you’d need, then why not just run a Linux distro to start with?

FreeBSD has a "Linuxulator" so you can run Linux containers without a VM.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails

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