there's absolutely wrong statement regarding Solaris's zones and FreeBSD's jail in LXC doc:

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Language is tricky.  There are often times when apparently correct usages
or usage that seems to be correct by almost any formal definition is
actually hideously wrong.  Another difficulty is that even a slight
variation can sometimes radically change the meaning or just the way people
view it.

English has tons of weird phrases that make no sense to non-native English
speakers = such as "pull the other one, it's got bells on it" or "your
having a giraffe".  French has a phrase "on the way up the stairs".  My
guess is that most languages have words or phrases that have odd
associations that non-native speakers wouldn't necessarily be aware of.


We sometimes try to help when people have said something that sounds
distinctly wrong.  Such as when it was difficult to believe that you meant
to be so DEEPLY offensive.  If you said that face-to-face then it would be
a surprise if you didn't get physically assaulted on the spot - or found
yourself facing some fairly serious hostility.

Gunnar's initial response was merely to alert you to the fact that your
choice of words didn't seem to match with what you seemed to be trying to
do.  Most of us would have apologised on the spot and admitted that we
hadn't meant to be so insulting.

I hope that you can manage to avoid using the word in public or that you
are at least aware that using it might lead to problems.

Regards from
Tom :)





On 11 November 2014 06:07, Igor Podlesny <ubuntu at poige.ru> wrote:

> On 11 November 2014 13:03, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Igor Podlesny (ubuntu at poige.ru):
> >> On 11 November 2014 12:32, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> >> 3) "Therefore containers are better compared to Solaris zones or BSD
> jails. ..."
> >> >
> >> > Jinkeys!  No, the original text does not mean that containers are
> better
> >> > than zones or jails.  It means that it is better to compare
> containers to
> >> > OS level virt like zones and jails than to full emulation like qemu.
> >>
> >>    Not sure what you mean, but that was _original_ text. That's why I
> >> reported it.
> >
> > I mean that you are mis-understanding the original text.
> >
> > However, in light of that, we will update it so that others do not also
> > mis-read it.
>
>    Funny thing how you aren't able to admit there's a problem with the
> original text. For e. g., one of OpenVZ key team engineer understood
> it the same way as it was written, and so I did. Good thing you're
> gonna fix it at least.
>
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