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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Nov 20, 2025 at 1:18:07 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   <10fnt1v$36q3t$2@dont-email.me>:   
      
   > On 20 Nov 2025 15:34:05 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Nov 19, 2025 at 9:35:55 PM MST, "Alan" wrote   
   >> <10fm5rb$2ni8b$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   >>> macOS has no Linux sub-system.   
   >>   
   >> Right... it has a virtualization system.   
   >   
   > Apple made a big deal about some kind of “lightweight virtualization”   
   > where the Linux kernel is shared among the Linux instances.   
   >   
   > Linux calls this “containerization”. Apple is making a big deal about   
   > a feature that they didn’t have to do any work to implement, because   
   > Linux already provides it for free!   
      
   That’s not really what’s going on. Apple isn’t hyping a “Linux feature   
   they   
   get for free.” They’re using macOS’s virtualization stack to run full   
   Linux   
   instances, with some clever memory sharing so multiple guests don’t store   
   identical kernel pages. Linux supports this, sure, but the host still has to   
   handle scheduling, memory management, I/O, and security boundaries — that’s   
   Apple’s work, not something handed to them.   
      
   And they’re not “making a big deal” out of it. It came up in a developer   
   talk   
   because it’s useful for people running multiple Linux VMs, not as some flashy   
   innovation. The drama around it is mostly online chatter, not Apple itself.   
      
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