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Re: Guix on macOS


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Guix on macOS
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:59:48 +0200
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Windows recently gained an in-kernel Linux syscall emulation, which
> means that (GNU/)Linux binaries can run unmodified on Windows.
>
> If macOS had a similar feature, that’d be perfect: we wouldn’t have
> anything to do.  Perhaps Docker-for-Mac actually provides something
> close to that?  I really don’t know.

IIUC, Docker for Mac uses macOS virtualization libraries.  Previously,
it would require an installation of VirtualBox, but this is no longer
the case.

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Ricardo

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