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Re: Guix on macOS


From: Christopher Allan Webber
Subject: Re: Guix on macOS
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:59:50 -0500
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Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Windows recently gained an in-kernel Linux syscall emulation, which
>> means that (GNU/)Linux binaries can run unmodified on Windows.
>>
>> If macOS had a similar feature, that’d be perfect: we wouldn’t have
>> anything to do.  Perhaps Docker-for-Mac actually provides something
>> close to that?  I really don’t know.
>
> IIUC, Docker for Mac uses macOS virtualization libraries.  Previously,
> it would require an installation of VirtualBox, but this is no longer
> the case.

Oh, I see you already replied with essentially the same message I
replied to you with... :)

So effectively "if it is (or was) good enough for Docker, why couldn't
this be good enough for us as a path forward?"



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