I will wait when docker or podman will adopt this :D
macOS Container Machines
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Re: macOS Container Machines
#452Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does any older folk here remembers when NT was the Cool New Thing (TM) and it had by design support to multiple subsystems plopped over the NT API, and Win32 was just one of them alongside POSIX (Interix) and OS/2? There was even a _very short_ time span when Interix was actually usable (it was extremely short though)
I guess that makes me square within the 'older folk' subset - I continued to use the NT core with LiteSTEP alongside the SGI/IRIX Octane2 well after Y2K. Those days I was working on a rework of the TRO PLATO learning system which was a real beast but essential for the individual learning project of a charter school i was supporting. PLATO had been taken from it's dedicated mainframe world and made 'runnable' on W95 w…
I loved LiteSTEP! It was the only thing that kept me sane on the work machine I was stuck using at the time
Re: macOS Container Machines
#453Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does any older folk here remembers when NT was the Cool New Thing (TM) and it had by design support to multiple subsystems plopped over the NT API, and Win32 was just one of them alongside POSIX (Interix) and OS/2? There was even a _very short_ time span when Interix was actually usable (it was extremely short though)
I guess that makes me square within the 'older folk' subset - I continued to use the NT core with LiteSTEP alongside the SGI/IRIX Octane2 well after Y2K. Those days I was working on a rework of the TRO PLATO learning system which was a real beast but essential for the individual learning project of a charter school i was supporting. PLATO had been taken from it's dedicated mainframe world and made 'runnable' on W95 w…
I would like a modern runnable version of PLATO.
Re: macOS Container Machines
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, the Darwin/BSD Subsystem for Linux.
Not quite, it’s still a VM. And while it supports virtio balloon for growing RAM, it doesn’t yet support releasing that RAM back to the host. And there isn’t a convenient way to shrink the sparse disk images as they grow yet, either.
macOS is basically already a POSIX subsystem for macOS, which is already a UNIX™.
But (some) people still criticize it because it's not Linux or FreeBSD (though it is closer to the latter than the former).
Re: macOS Container Machines
#455I can't help but think it was a mistake for "Open" containers to be Linux-only. Why can't we have POSIX containers, for example?
Re: macOS Container Machines
#456Re: macOS Container Machines
#457So essentially both macOS and Windows now heavily support developing using Linux on them. They can't more openly admit that they are no match for Linux in that area. There's some clever advertising in it for Linux, if Linux was advertising.
Mac OS is adding support because they realize that they are gonna miss a good portion of consumer base to windows laptops running on Nvidia Spark since people can get the perfect machine for gaming and dev. The big thing with Windows laptops is historically, they were slightly more sluggish than Macs because the os/hardware wasn't optimized. On desktops with enough performance, Windows has been king ever since WSL2,…
> miss a good portion of consumer base to windows laptops running on Nvidia Spark
I don't know which world you live in, but I can assure you that's not happening.
If you don't believe me, just go look
1) what laptops are sold at Best Buy
2) On HN and reddit, what machines people are using for running local LLM