I'm suspecting some forces at Apple would be perfectly content with ripping most of the BSD core and the assorted CLI out and just have Linux containers spawned in VMs, WSL2-style.

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pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Of course they were, even NeXTSTEP was designed to be compatible with UNIX only to compete with UNIX workstations like those from Sun.

Neither Apple nor NeXT had a UNIX culture, and efforts like A/UX and mkLinux were never that much serious.

Had they acquired Be, BeOS was even less UNIXy than NeXTSTEP.

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jeremyjh 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its called colima and its excellent.

https://colima.run/

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moritz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

and they have a first-party one now as well

https://github.com/apple/container

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jeremyjh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I haven't tried it. colima also simplifies linux VMs which is more of an analog to WSL2 than just running containers. It has really nice integration with Incus as well, if you like persistent system containers.

	▲	moritz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I also use colima mostly, it‘s great! (the Apple container thing de facto requires macos 26+)

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throawayonthe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

would be awesome