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I built a container a few minutes ago on macOS, not sure why you believe this to be the case.

• linkmotif 8y ago
  Docker containers/lxc require Linux. They are a Linux technology.
  • aaachilless 8y ago
    This is technically true but in practice Docker for Mac hides this from you and does not require a prohibitive amount of memory. 99% of the developers at my company have 16gb MBPs and we all build multiple Docker containers daily.
    • linkmotif 8y ago
      Thanks. I didn’t know the visualization system changed. I will check this out again.
  • chupasaurus 8y ago
    As weird as it sounds, Microsoft had implemented the full namespaces stack in Server 2016 (unavailable in Win10 as the base for native containers is Server where kernel differs a bit), which Docker supports (and k8s in alpha/early beta). Docker switched from LXC to containerd in 2016.
    • linkmotif 8y ago
      That is very weird. Wow. Thanks for letting me know. I guess it's not a Linux technology then.