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Re:Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootl... by zbentley on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:04PM (#45699564)
There is now work from Apple in that direction: https://github.com/apple/container

No idea what the future of that project, or its potential integration with other container management systems might be, but it is certainly interesting at first glance.

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Re:Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootl... by baby on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:11PM (#45739243)
According to chatgpt:

Why Not Use Apple Containers Instead?

Because Apple containers:

Aren’t meant for system-level isolation — they’re for app sandboxing.

Don’t provide process namespaces, cgroups, or Linux syscalls, which are essential to containerization.

Wouldn’t be compatible with the entire Linux-based Docker ecosystem (images, tooling, etc.).

So Docker sticks with Linux containers, running them in a VM layer on macOS.

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