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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by gspr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:48AM (#26329913)
Maybe I'm just a simplistic person, but classical Linux distributions make this problem non-existing for 99% of what goes on in my world.

Their role is precisely to orchestrate the cooperation and interdepndency of those millions of lines of code. I don't understand why people have started turning those distros into glorified delivery vehicles for containers.

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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by hnedeotes on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:07AM (#26330253)
Simplistic is actually good - but I don't think that any (?) of the available current OSes is able to contain a program that can run once as administrator right? If I'm not recalling it incorrectly, BSD jails, linux cgroups, user filesystem permission, docker, vm's - and that's at the surface.
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