So it looks like the debian team is removing Linux-Vserver in favor of
LXC. I haven't played around with Linux containers at all. What does
this shift mean for Linux-Vserver? Is there generally growing support
for LXC and OpenVZ over Linux-Vserver out there?
ben@bristolwireless.net wrote:
> Quoting "Jeff Jansen" <jeff.jansen@kkoncepts.net>:
>
>> Does anyone know what the "status" of vserver in Debian is after
>> Squeeze? Is it
>> still marked as "depreciated" and will be removed? I see there are
>> still
>> vserver packages in Sid (http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel/)
>> which I didn't
>> expect to see if it was scheduled for removal after Squeeze.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Jeff Jansen
>>
>
> I don't know the status, though I've not heard that its changed from
> "deprecated". Its presence in Sid though is not relevant to
> Linux-Vserver's deprecation, it needs to be there so that packages can
> get to Squeeze, Sid is always the place were things enter the main
> Debian repositories.
>
>
> Cheers,
> ==
> From Ben Green
Received on Fri May 28 20:00:18 2010