OpenSolaris On Container

OpenSolaris on container

Just my immagination, may be in the future. Docker can run Opensolaris, Darwin and Windows container. So far the most stable is still Linux.

No luck in getting Darwin or OpenSolaris running on VM, Qemu or virtualbox. The one which is working is ReactOS (Windows NT).

Since docker works with colima + Qemu, in future may be can use Colima to choose Darwin, OpenSolaris, or Windows (using ReactOS component) as a base.

Darwin is the open source of OS X kernel without the GUI, the XNU hybrid kernel plus BSD software.

Linux Brew On Chrome OS Flex 2025

Linux Brew On Chrome OS Flex 2025

I like homebrew so much, that I try it out immediately when I knew about it. At that time, Linux brew is not so matured, I encounter a lot of issues, I didn't know much about ruby program, so I give up.

Now Linux brew is quite matured. It install on Linux without much problem.

There was one time, I was in doubt, why do I need a Linux brew. My Linux can installed a lot of open source packages. This is different from macOS, which doesn’t have a good channel to install those software.

Later I found out that I need it for development. Since homebrew install the software and library in a separated directory, I can create a different development environment apart from the system.

For example, the Java on my system now is mainly Java 17 or above, but I wanted to have Java 8 for developemnt.

This is how I do it, after setup Linux brew:

$ brew install openjdk@8
$ export JAVA_HOME=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/openjdk@8
$ export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ java -version
$ openjdk version "1.8.0_462"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_462-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.462-b08, mixed mode)

This even works on Chromebook on ARM chips.