For the nostalgia seekers, I uploaded the OG Docker for Mac beta video: <a href="https://crank.recoil.org/w/3re5G972kkqjzzujxHQ3E6" rel="nofollow">https://crank.recoil.org/w/3re5G972kkqjzzujxHQ3E6
I do think this was well ahead of its time. Under the hood, we designed a Linux distro called LinuxKit (<a href="https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit) which ran every process in its own mount namespace (including the init process), and had a deterministic build with hashes. As far as I can tell, it's still pretty hard to get this experience even with Nix in 2026.
The boot time was also quick enough to be entirely in parallel and so not be noticeable (the 'bounce time' of the application on Mac was one bounce!)
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I do think this was well ahead of its time. Under the hood, we designed a Linux distro called LinuxKit (<a href="https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit) which ran every process in its own mount namespace (including the init process), and had a deterministic build with hashes. As far as I can tell, it's still pretty hard to get this experience even with Nix in 2026.
The boot time was also quick enough to be entirely in parallel and so not be noticeable (the 'bounce time' of the application on Mac was one bounce!)