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> I have not heard, and cannot find, any rumors about Apple shipping a Linux emulator. Links? It was even on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
> I have not heard, and cannot find, any rumors about Apple shipping a Linux emulator. Links?
It was even on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990 , https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-extend-rosetta-support-to-linux-virtual-machines/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-e...
> macOS drives hardware sales. Apple makes money on hardware sales.
Not as clear specially when the money they make from macOS hardware sales is actually less than what they make from services or iOS hardware sales.
The era when we had an open computing standards Apple that tried to interoperate with others is long gone. This is the era of the captive Apple who is trying to bind you into their ecosystem, and I won't believe the "0%" argument any more than I believe it for MS.
- halostatue 4y agoThe extension of Rosetta2 to work in virtualization contexts is not the same as Apple shipping a Linux emulator / environment like WSL / WSL2.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoPlease note that I said a x86 Linux emulator, and it is exactly that. It is: 1. A Linux binary, 2. Which translates Linux/ELF code from x86 to ARM, 3. And translates Linux x86 syscalls to amd64 Linux, 4. With the explicit intention of allowing the user to run x86 Linux binaries under macOS. If you want to be this level of nitpicking, then WSL is not a Linux emulator either; after all, they also require an existing Linux kernel to work, and may not even emulate anything whatsoever. But BOTH WSL2 and this emulator serve _exactly_ the serve purpose: to facilitate running of Linux binaries under a native host OS that is not Linux, thus my point.