Chapter 1. Overview

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Introduction

Introduction

Rooms are a distributed form of containers that are based on ZFS and FreeBSD jails.

For the current status, release information, and the list of known bugs, see the GitHub project page.

Features:

  • Allow unprivileged users to create jails in a simple and safe manner.

  • Allow users to run X11 applications in jails

  • Keep data and code separate, so that applications can be updated without losing data.

  • Treat applications like Git repositories; cloning from a remote URI, pulling new revisions and merging them with local changes, and pushing your changes to a remote repository.

The room(1) manpage describes these features in more detail.