Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac

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  • ish

    Linux shell for iOS

  • darling

    Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • plane

    A distributed system for running WebSocket services at scale. (by drifting-in-space)

    • The closest thing I’ve seen to a comprehensive write-up is this: https://medium.com/@mreichelt/how-to-show-x11-windows-within... (medium, unfortunately)

    We’ve been using it experimentally to run an ephemeral instance of Firefox that we can programmatically inject DNS and CA certs into, for localhost HTTPS development. It’s not documented yet, but the config is here: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/plane/pull/201

  • XQuartz

    An X11 server and client libraries for macOS

    • Ah, apparently it's possible to install, though:

    https://www.xquartz.org/

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