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by altairprime 29 days ago
On M1 on specific? or on any platform in general?
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bmurphy1976 29 days ago
The platform itself. Like, can it run Firefox? Can I actually do normal stuff in the browser like watch a YouTube video or join a Zoom call? Can I run VSCode? Can I run Docker?
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lproven 29 days ago
It is not a Linux distro. It is not a Linux at all; it is a completely different, independent OS. It is not a Unix at all: it's an independent ground-up C++ OS that implements a lot of POSIX-type APIs to make it easier to port Unix apps.

Docker is literally a Linux native tool that is for Linux only. The only way Docker works on anything that isn't Linux is by running a Linux VM, containing Alpine.

It is not a Linux and no you cannot do Linux things with it like run Linux containers, because to run Linux containers you need Linux and this is not a Linux.

I am trying to emphasize this because your question seems to be asking "what kind of Linux is this?" and this is a category error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake

Or, as ESR originally put it, it's an X/Y problem:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

Yes, a Firefox port became available recently. I don't know if it can run Zoom. I go out of my way to avoid Zoom if I possibly can.

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ranger_danger 28 days ago
> The only way Docker works on anything that isn't Linux is by running a Linux VM, containing Alpine.

Sorry but this is demonstrably false. Not only is Alpine not a requirement in the slightest, Windows Server's own containers work as a backend for Docker just fine.

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lproven 28 days ago
Sure, but you can't run your Linux containers in them. But you can on FreeBSD. Which was my point.
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