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Apple and GNU/Linux Containers
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Apple officially supports Linux, focusing on a completely seamless experience.
When it comes to coding, macOS and Linux each have their own strengths:
One excels in being user - friendly and having refined tools, making the process of writing code a pleasure; the other shines in its standards and well - developed ecosystem, making running code a breeze.
However, now, programmers no longer have to make a choice. They can smoothly run Linux directly on Apple computers.
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Apple introduces container machines: persistent virtual machines running Linux
A report at The Register says that developers using macOS, as with those on Windows, face the problem that most applications are deployed to Linux, creating a mismatch between the development machine and the deployment target. The friction is less for macOS, which, like Linux, is Unix-like, but still exists.
Update
More in ZDNet:
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Container made it easy to run Linux on my MacBook - here's how I set it up
If you're looking to get into developing for Linux, but you prefer using a Mac as your developer tool of choice, there's a new command-line tool that you should definitely look into.
Much later:
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Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own [Ed: Microsoft Tim compares this to Microsoft]
At WWDC this week, Apple introduced container machines, which are persistent virtual machines running Linux, bearing some resemblance to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Microsoft's operating system.