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timsneath • today at 1:13 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

To clarify a few comments here: this is not only OCI containers: container machines add support for persistence and filesystem mounting, making container machines a great lightweight Linux environment for developers using macOS. More details here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/389

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jjtheblunt • today at 4:58 AM

> ... highly integrated Linux environment that works seamlessly on your Mac. ...

Which kernel is running, and is it hosted in hypervisor.framework, as is done with UTM (when not using the qemu mode)?

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bogantech • today at 6:54 AM

> filesystem mounting

How is this different to bind mounts

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Onavo • today at 1:34 AM

Ah, the Darwin/BSD Subsystem for Linux.

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