Docker Goes Native for Windows and Mac | Linux Today

Docker Goes Native for Windows and Mac

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 25, 2016

Until today, the only practical way to run a Docker container on an Apple Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows desktop was by also running the open-source Oracle VirtualBox application. That is now changing with a new private beta effort debuting March 24 from Docker Inc. that will for the first time easily enable Docker containers to run natively on OS X and Windows.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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