Linux @lemmy.ml 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 Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers

Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

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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.
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 wouldn't, but someone did for me!
- :notlikethis:
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.
- How the GPU support, does it support Metal?!
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.
  
  Noice!
Embrace <-- You are here

Extend

Extinguish

Fuck Apple
- I'll believe it if I see it.
When all you hire are web devs everything becomes a docker
- docker?! i hardly knew her!
Mac and Linux feel like cousins than ultra far apart at times.
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.
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.
Isn't it this one ? https://github.com/apple/containerization
Proud of you!