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After getting Apple’s container running, the thing I actually wanted was a normal Ubuntu box to poke around in. That took one more step than I expected: systemd. A container runs whatever its CMD is as PID 1. The stock ubuntu:26.04 image …

Apple has a CLI for running Linux containers on macOS now. It’s called container, and the part I care about is that it doesn’t need Docker Desktop. The design choice that makes it interesting: there’s no single shared Linux VM that …