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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix on macOS
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:59:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvz3f8rv.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmlbp64m.fsf@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> 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.

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Ricardo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-13 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-12  3:29 Guix on macOS Chris Marusich
2017-10-12  8:08 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-12  8:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-12 20:35   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-12 21:33   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 15:58     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-13  7:14   ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-13 11:47     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-13 12:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-13 13:59       ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-13 13:59       ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-10-13 15:59         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-13 14:08       ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-25 15:50         ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27  4:11     ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-27  7:56       ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-28 20:27       ` Building Docker images of GuixSD Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-31  2:59         ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-05 15:45           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-09  6:15             ` Chris Marusich
2017-11-09  6:43               ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-09  8:23               ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-11-17 21:14               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-27 22:13               ` Christopher Baines
2017-11-30  9:11                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-07  9:33                 ` Chris Marusich
2017-12-16  2:30                 ` Chris Marusich
2017-10-12 19:09 ` Guix on macOS Christopher Baines
2017-10-25 14:45 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-27  1:06   ` Chris Marusich

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