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throwaway1482on DHH: The Year of Linux Confirmed

It's not the year of the Linux desktop just because your billionaire buddy is using it. If anything, it's been the year of the Linux desktop for many of us for years, you're all late to the party.

throwaway1482on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS

> How hard is it to emulate linux system calls?

Just replace the XNU kernel with Linux already.

throwaway1482on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS

Those can be emulated with the likes of SELinux, sockets, and bind mounts. It will take a lot of effort and some adaptation, but it could be done.

throwaway1482on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS

If they're going this way, why not just replace the macOS kernel (XNU) with Linux? They'll get so much more.

throwaway1482on The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)

Well-known developer Enrico Weigelt just forked the X server from freedesktop.org after getting the boot [0].

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

[1] https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/commits/xlibre/prepare/

throwaway1482on Ask HN: When will Wayland eclipse X?

Qt*

QT == QuickTime.

throwaway1482on GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better

Wim Taymans is the man!