Re: [vserver] Happy birthday!

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat 03 Oct 2020 - 03:50:41 BST
Message-ID: <20201003025040.GB12805@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:40:24PM +0200, Harald Weidner wrote:
> Hallo,

Hello Harald,

> According to
> https://web.archive.org/web/20031228170820/http://dns.solucorp.qc.ca/changes.hc?projet=vserver
> the first versions 0.0 and 0.1 of Linux-VServer appeared
> on 2001-10-02, 19 years from today.

Yep!

> Happy birthday!

> However, I wonder if there are older references.
> In some presentations about container technology related
> to Docker/Kubernetes, the history of VServer is dated
> back to 1999.

> This would make then even older than BSD jails, wich
> appeared in BSD 4.0 in March 2000.
> Does anybody know of a source?

Here is what I did find in my archives ...

https://sysadmin.miniconf.org/2006/vserver/slides/slide3c.html

But I think this is also 'getting the dates wrong' as
I could never find any vserver (or vhost) reference
before 2001.

In any case, I think the best person to answer that
would be Jacques ... :)

All the best,
Herbert

> Best regards,
> Harald
Received on Sat Oct 3 03:25:24 2020

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