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Re:Docker's Second Death by heavyset_go on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:47PM (#25326472)
> Even more depressing is that macOS still doesn't seem to have native containers.

Docker containers are reliant on Linux cgroups, so even if macOS had its own native containers, it would need to add a Linux cgroups compatibility layer on top of it for Docker to work natively.

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Re:Docker's Second Death by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:57PM (#25326550)
Doesn't docker support pluggable backends for actually running containers? It can't possibly be hard-tied to cgroups, since docker can run native Windows containers.
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