Linux @programming.dev TheTwelveYearOld @lemmy.world 3w ago

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

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I love how all the major operating systems are adding ways to run Linux. Even Android which arguably IS Linux.
- I do find it funny how android is Linux yet their Linux feature is a VM
  
  Because google doesn't want you doing anything ~~that they can't control~~ fun on the host Android system. They did the same thing with crostini on ChromeOS for "security".
The people complaining that Apple copied a good thing are missing the point. If Apple includes containerization on macOS by default (even if you have to enable it manually), more developers can just target Linux instead of Linux and macOS for certain types of applications (real bash scripts with GNU coreutils instead of the trash that Apple ships, servers, etc.).
macOS 26? I thought the last version was 15...
- Looks like they're jumping from 15 to 26, in fact they're doing the same thing for iOS, jumping from 18 to 26 for the next release. Looks like they're synchronizing all their OS version numbers using the year they'll be primarily used(i.e. 2026) from what I can find.
  
  This is my preferred versioning format for user-facing software, by far.
  
  I feel like Semver should also adopt the date inclusion, like 7.4.2-202606 or even 7.4.202606 — you can even extended it to multiple daily releases like 7.4.20260610.1233
  
  There's too much software to mentally track when each version was released. You should be able to tell at a glance.
  
  I'm not an apple person, so even I saw news about iOS I thought "how the fuck are they on 26 already?"
  
  I didn't really care, but I appreciate the explanation.
- They're basically copying Samsung (and the auto industry) and switching to using the year of the release instead of iterative naming schemes.
pretty scant on details. what is this doing for me that Podman or Containerd aren’t? “oPtIMizeD fOR aPPlE SiLICon” is fluff
- Well it helps that its open source & apple is actually encouraging contributions: https://github.com/apple/container
  
  Using the open source Containerization package, it runs a lightweight VM for each container that you create.
  
  A big improvement over the stupid shit Docker Desktop did (running a bigass ugly VM for all containers). I'll still stick with my Linux laptop ;)
- I was wondering the same
We need to develop darling too
- Darling is a cool project but I think the reason it hasn't taken off is because there isn't a lot of software people both want to use on Linux and software that isn't already covered by wine. You need an overlap between those 2 and that's a small market
  
  Yeah, I just think that maybe, just maybe, if MacOS is also inspired by UNIX, making a compat layer is not that big of a difference. Because MacOS supports a lot of productivity programs that may attract professionals to Linux too. Mostly adobe suite.
- Wine is successful because of the decades of work put into it. For Darling to reach that level of support it would need a herculean amount of effort as well.
@TheTwelveYearOld wow such amazing technology
who would have thought it was possible
🙄

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