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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by harpratap on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:20AM (#23597716)
How do you expect docker to run fine when it doesn't even run good on x86 OSX? There are constant performance issues (https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499) because docker-on-mac is basically a VM running Linux
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by aljarry on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:19AM (#23599829)
Docker is a linux tech tied to features in Linux kernel. You don't have cgroups and the like in XNU (OSX kernel) to be able to run docker natively on OSX.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by harpratap on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:38AM (#23600031)
It's OSX's fault then. Windows can run containers natively now as long as the base image is windows too. No reason why OSX couldn't extend support either.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by jen20 on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:01AM (#23600272)
I would suggest that the VAST majority of Docker usage on Windows is not “windows containers” but Linux-based containers in a VM, be it WSL or Docker for Windows. The promise of Docker is that a container image built on machine A will run on machine B. That relies on them running the same operating system in some capacity.
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