Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc.

Re:Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization fr... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday June 09, 2025 @09:12PM (#44231449)

Yeah, it probably would be feasible to dust off the FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer[1] and turn that into native support for Linux apps on Mac.

I think Apple’s main hesitation would be that the Linux userland is all GPL.

[1]: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

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Re:Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization fr... by leoh on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:13AM (#44233190)

If they built as a kernel extension it would probably be okay with gpl.

There’s a huge opportunity for Apple to make kernel development for xnu way better.

Tooling right now is a disaster — very difficult to build a kernel and test it (eg in UTM, etc.).

If they made this better and took more of an OSS openness posture like Microsoft, a lot of incredible things could be built for macOS.

I’ll bet a lot of folks would even port massive parts of the kernel to rust for them for free.

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Re:Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization fr... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @11:24PM (#44243919)

My impression is they’re basically trying to end third party kernel development; macOS has been making it progressively more difficult to use kexts and has been providing alternate toolkits for doing things that used to require drivers.

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