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by rollcat 1298 days ago
> What advantage do people get hy using macOS?

The question applies both ways: what advantage (other than native container support) do I get by running Linux?

Personally I would love to see OCI containers supported natively on other operating systems. Currently you get the same VM crapshow on e.g. OpenBSD, except the community is several orders of magnitude smaller, so you don't even get prepackaged solutions.
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encryptluks2 1298 days ago
I get the advantage of transparent source code, a vibrant community supporting amazing projects, first-class support for new concepts and features.

> Personally I would love to see OCI containers supported natively on other operating systems. Currently you get the same VM crapshow on e.g. OpenBSD, except the community is several orders of magnitude smaller, so you don't even get prepackaged solutions.

Talk to your OS vendor. They are the ones who are preventing this from working.

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rollcat 1298 days ago
I find it odd that you used both "it's a community project" and "talk to your vendor" in the same reply to address the same concern.
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encryptluks2 1298 days ago
Why? Linux is a community project that is open source, and containers are based on Linux. If you want native support for your proprietary OS then talk to your proprietary OS vendor since they are the one who should be supporting it.
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rollcat 1298 days ago
OpenBSD is proprietary?...
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encryptluks2 1297 days ago
OpenBSD already has containerd support. macOS is not based on upstream OpenBSD though.
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rollcat 1297 days ago
> macOS is not based on upstream OpenBSD though.

I've never suggested this at any point.

> OpenBSD already has containerd support.

So what are the leftover steps we'd need to take, from "has containerd support" until "pkg_add docker && rcctl start dockerd && docker run -ti --rm hello-world"?

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