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

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

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WSL for Mac?
- Yeah pretty much.
- Why do you need WSL?
  
  MacOS is BSD, so you can do most Linux things with an issue. But some of the BSD tools have different options the the GNU tools.
  
  We moved to Mac years ago and it makes doing almost everything I do a simples
  
  because docker. it hard requires a linux kernel and is extremely slow on mac, just like it was on windows until they integrated with wsl.
  
  No. Mac is NOT BSD. Mac took the BSD user space from 20+ years ago. That's all.
  
  I'm not sure why this myth keeps being repeated over and over.
  
  If that's all it takes to "be" BSD, then windows is also BSD since the entire windows network stack was lifted from BSD
- MSL that is.
- I wonder if you could run WSL under Wine...
like a macpak?
So Apple computers actually turn useful?
I wonder if this opens up any new opportunities for cool Distrobox usecases.
- You can already sort of hack distrobox-like functionality, but the biggest problem with doing so is that there's no Wayland or X11 server running on macOS, so GUI applications don't work unless you install something like XQuartz, and even then, it's a pretty janky experience.
I hope I can run ollama in a container with full power, can't install it natively on my work computer
- Still uses VMs, although it's 1 VM per container.

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