namespaces. Linux namespaces were inspired by the wider namespace functionality used heavily throughout Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The Linux Namespaces originated...
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Cgroups (redirect from PID namespaces)
"Applying mount namespaces". IBM developerWorks. Michael Kerrisk (27 February 2013). "Namespaces in operation, part 5: User namespaces". lwn.net Linux Info from...
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Waydroid (category Linux software)
enables Android to run in a containerized environment on Linux systems. By using Linux namespaces, Waydroid keeps Android isolated but allows it to access...
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OS-level virtualization (redirect from Linux Containers)
Container Linux Container orchestration Flatpak package manager Linux cgroups Linux namespaces Hypervisor Portable application creators Open Container Initiative...
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LXC (redirect from Lxc Linux Containers)
management: Linux kernel namespaces and cgroups" (PDF). CS. UCSB. Retrieved February 11, 2015. Kenlon, Seth (2020-01-30). "Exploring simple Linux containers...
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NSS' OS-level virtualization can remap user identifiers, e.g. using Linux namespaces, and therefore need to allocate ranges into which remapped UIDs and...
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managed by regular users without administrator rights by using Linux namespaces. List of Linux containers "v5.5.1". 5 June 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025. Walker...
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implementations include the following: Linux application sandboxing, built on Seccomp, cgroups and Linux namespaces. Notably used by Systemd, Google Chrome...
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Docker (software) (redirect from Docker (Linux container engine))
cloud. When running on Linux, Docker uses the resource isolation features of the Linux kernel (such as cgroups and kernel namespaces) and a union-capable...
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full-fledged virtual machines. This approach relies on the Linux kernel's cgroups and namespaces functionalities, which together provide abilities to limit...
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Distributed File System (Microsoft) (redirect from DFS Namespaces)
Directory (AD) domain-based DFS namespaces". There are two ways of implementing DFS on a server: Standalone DFS namespace - allows for a DFS root that exists...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Graphics Execution Manager (Linux))
gem-flink doesn't provide any private namespaces to applications and servers. Instead, only one global namespace is provided per DRM node. Malicious authenticated...
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user may work simultaneously with programs that have heterogeneous namespaces. Namespaces may be used to create an isolated environment similar to chroot...
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Anbox (category Linux emulation software)
using native Linux kernel to execute applications. It makes use of Linux namespaces through LXC for isolation. Applications do not have any direct hardware...
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Subgraph (operating system) (category Linux distributions)
Subgraph OS's notable features included: Linux kernel hardened with the grsecurity and PaX patchset. Linux namespaces and xpra for application containment...
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Filesystem in Userspace (redirect from FUSE (linux))
provides only a bridge to the actual kernel interfaces. FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (as puffs), OpenSolaris, Minix 3, macOS, MorphOS...
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Seccomp (category Linux kernel features)
an open source Linux sandbox program that utilizes Linux namespaces, Seccomp, and other kernel-level security features to sandbox Linux and Wine applications...
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directory Linux Zone Unicode Assignments — code points assigned for Linux within the Private Use Area of Unicode Several namespace registries for the Linux Standard...
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Binfmt misc (category Linux kernel features)
binfmt_misc (Miscellaneous Binary Format) is a capability of the Linux kernel which allows arbitrary executable file formats to be recognized and passed...
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reserve namespaces, preventing conflicts and ensuring data integrity, and Namespace Priority that sets priority levels for different namespaces, optimizing...
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directory servers in different namespaces are interconnected to form a distributed directory service; each namespace can be governed by a different authority...
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Unix domain socket (redirect from Linux socket)
system as its address name space. Some operating systems, like Linux, offer additional namespaces. Processes reference a UDS as a file system inode, so two...
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Systemd (redirect from Systemd/Linux)
of system components for Linux operating systems. The main aim is to unify service configuration and behavior across Linux distributions. Its primary...
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of free software to Darwin. They package OS images in a way similar to a Linux distribution. The Darwine project was a port of Wine that allows one to...
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Git (redirect from Git (linux))
refs/meta/config namespace was introduced retrospectively, gets used by Gerrit, tags: see above. Git (the main implementation in C) is primarily developed on Linux, although...
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Chroot (category Linux kernel features)
terminology and gained popularity in 2013 due to inclusion into Linux kernel 3.8 of user namespaces. A chroot environment can be used to create and host a separate...
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Extended file attributes (section Linux)
exists in a namespace identified by a small-integer namespace identifier. Currently, two namespaces exist: user and system. The user namespace has no restrictions...
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Mono (software) (section Namespaces and assemblies)
where the most common top-level namespace is System, such as System.IO and System.Net. There are other top-level namespaces as well, such as Accessibility...
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Network block device (category Linux kernel features)
On Linux, network block device (NBD) is a network protocol that can be used to forward a block device (typically a hard disk or partition) from one machine...
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MediaWiki (redirect from MediaWiki namespace)
media files. Each namespace on MediaWiki is numbered: content page namespaces have even numbers and their associated talk page namespaces have odd numbers...
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