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TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

1mo ago

macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers

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cm0002 @lemmy.world

1mo ago

macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

www.apple.com /newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

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TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world

1mo ago

macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: "enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac"

www.apple.com /newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

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Ok. So now both Apple and Microsoft are distributors of the Linux kernel. What a timeline.
- it's the year of the linux desktop without the year of the linux desktop.
  
  It's everyday the year of Linux !
Cool. Podman Desktop should be easier after this. Presumably, it’s still a Linux VM driven by something written by Apple instead of qemu.
No macOS containers though. Being able to spin up macOS containers would have been nice for builds and isolating things like pkgsrc.
- And here it is.
  Small VMs, like everything else.
  https://github.com/apple/containerization
Cries in 8GB Macbook
- If containers are part of your work then you wouldn't buy a 8GB RAM unupgradable device anyway.
  
  No, but the company's IT would buy a 16GB Macbook for you that isn't even initially compatible with the images/containers you need to work with. Ask me how I know >.>
  
  You're right. I wouldnt, but someone did for me!
So I guess now you can run some games.
- Yeah, about that... Heroic game launcher is free and can run a loooooooot of pc games. It now runs pc steam directly.
I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.
- Apple being Apple, the answer is probably yes. But realistically there's going to be some stupid hurdle in the way and because they make it a PITA nobody's really going to do it.
  Which really sucks because the massive GPU and "unified memory" is incredible when they work in conjunction.
  
  Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal
Can you run amd64 containers?
- It supports Rosetta2, so yes.
  
  Sweet, that will help me, although it takes away my last blocker allowing me to use my Linux box as my primary blocker.
  I guess I will have to comain about performance or something.
Embrace <-- You are here
Extend
Extinguish
Fuck Apple
- I'll believe it when I see it.
Mac and Linux feel like cousins than ultra far apart at times.
When all you hire are web devs everything becomes a docker
You're doing it wrong. I want to run a macOS container on Linux
- But why?
  
  Certain application only has Mac OS or Windows version.
Isn't macos unix already?
- mwa@thelemmy.club It is certified to be UNIX, yes. But Linux is not UNIX. Not that it would matter if Linux was certified to be UNIX anyhow. UNIX is a certification that you go through and pay for. The kernel beneath is not necessarily binary compatible with other UNIX operating systems.
Proud of you!
This isn't a Linux post.
- While I read the title I was thinking “that sounds like Linux with extra steps” - maybe that’s good enough for some discussion.
  
  Not here, it's not.
Container and Ai ! Now you get the sparkle junkie virus, guys!

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