Why it matters: The Asahi Linux Project has published the first public alpha of Asahi Linux, a distro made for the Apple M1 SoC and its derivatives. It's been eagerly anticipated by Linux users ...

The ongoing Asahi project to bring Linux to Apple Silicon has reached a milestone, adding the first conformant GPU driver for the family of chips. The Asahi Linux project for Mac first teased plans to ...

Apple’s Macs with M1 series processors offer the best performance-per-watt of any laptop or desktop computers available at the moment. But the transition from using Intel chips to custom-made ARM ...

Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, "Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels ...

If you have been patiently waiting for the ability to install and run native Linux on the new Apple M1 silicon processors you will be pleased to know that Jeff Geerling has been able to load and run ...

A few months ago, running Linux on Apple's M1 and M2-powered Macs became possible. It wasn't easy, mind you. But thanks to the work of Asahi Linux developers, it could be done. Now, Asahi founder and ...

Apple is growing its laptop market withApple continues its growth in the laptop market with M series processors and setting new performance standards. However, MacBooks have weaknesses. Traditional ...

Linux 6.2 brings native support for M1 processors on Mac, but it isn't totally finished or ready for primetime. Linux support on ARM processors, and more specifically, Apple's M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and ...

Last week, I wrote a story incorrectly concluding that a full Linux desktop environment would soon run on Macs with Apple silicon. This was a misunderstanding of the facts. While some of the work in ...

Yeah, I don't think Apple will ever release anything to help on the GPU front, so outside of clean reverse engineering/hacking the macOS driver, that's going to be hard to get a nice stable system.

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