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Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

Fnoord wrote: post #86
sneak wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please make Homebrew’s telemetry opt-in instead of opt-out. I encourage you to follow the good example of how Debian runs popcon (popularity contest). By having your default be assuming user consent to surveillance, you have produced spyware that reports a user’s track log history to Google via IP geolocation and a persistent unique machine identifier included with the request to Google Analytics every time the user…

Is this actually GDPR compliant as it is?

If it doesn't ask for consent and stores PII then no, it's not.

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by WatchDog »

jeroenhd wrote: post #85
therealmarv wrote: post #74

That won't help running Docker and VirtualBox. There's also a big chance VirtualBox will never make it to M1 ;(

AS has support for virtualisation so VirtualBox will probably make it, but most likely only for running operating systems that run on ARM. There's very little preventing VB for being used as a tool to run the ARM versions of Linux or your favourite flavour of BSD, but Windows probably won't work (not until MS releases a download for Windows on ARM, at least). So, VirtualBox itself will work, but using it to run Windo…

There are windows aarch64 builds available via various means. Although the windows arm software ecosystem is dismal.

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by somesortofsystm »

woodruffw wrote: post #9
Aperocky wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this make brew compile subsequent binaries in x86 though? Or is it purely cosmetic.

Homebrew maintainer here. We don’t officially support Big Sur yet, but installing it via Rosetta will cause it to fetch x86 bottles instead of ARM ones. At least, that’s the plan.

Does this plan include differentiating at the Casks as well? (Thanks for the work on homebrew, I live by it - its key to my use of MacOS ..)

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by my123 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #85
therealmarv wrote: post #74

That won't help running Docker and VirtualBox. There's also a big chance VirtualBox will never make it to M1 ;(

AS has support for virtualisation so VirtualBox will probably make it, but most likely only for running operating systems that run on ARM. There's very little preventing VB for being used as a tool to run the ARM versions of Linux or your favourite flavour of BSD, but Windows probably won't work (not until MS releases a download for Windows on ARM, at least). So, VirtualBox itself will work, but using it to run Windo…

VirtualBox won't be ported to any Arm64 platform, Oracle explicitly said that they wouldn't do it.

However, Parallels and VMWare Fusion will. You'll also have other solutions around.

Also, no App Store requirement on macOS at all.

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by unix-boomer »

ryancnelson wrote: post #6

There's also the "arch" command, to run commands under rosetta2 I just installed Homebrew on my new m1 MacBook Air with: $ arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/in... )"

Well, this is something nice. Looks like it will help developers transition to the new architecture.

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by varispeed »

Would running X86 require licensing? If Intel doesn't say anything then could Apple in a couple of years develop their own X86 CPU by turning Rosetta into a hardware solutions? Technically it should be possible - as Transmeta has done something similar, but cannot find if they got a license from Intel or it was not needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta

Re: Run x86 Apps (including homebrew) in the Terminal on Apple Silicon

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Post by my123 »

WatchDog wrote: post #92
jeroenhd wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AS has support for virtualisation so VirtualBox will probably make it, but most likely only for running operating systems that run on ARM. There's very little preventing VB for being used as a tool to run the ARM versions of Linux or your favourite flavour of BSD, but Windows probably won't work (not until MS releases a download for Windows on ARM, at least). So, VirtualBox itself will work, but using it to run Windo…

There are windows aarch64 builds available via various means. Although the windows arm software ecosystem is dismal.

Various means? The official way is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins...
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