Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3(asahilinux.org)
412 points by ackyshake 4 days ago | 389 comments
tl;dr: Asahi Linux has upstreamed major drivers (macaudio, AVD, Thunderbolt) and made M3 support generally available, while reverse engineering of the M3 GPU has progressed to drawing triangles and m1n1 can now virtualize macOS on M5 via triple-VM trickery. Using Google's Android P3S patchset for per-process page sizes, the team got Windows games like GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside of muvm with significant performance gains. Due to bad actors (including AI-assisted code laundering) exploiting their permissive licensing, the project is relicensing all code from MIT to GPLv2+.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Enthusiastic supporter celebrating Asahi's progress and timely Fedora release
  • ~Missing features like USB-C display support are blockers to adoption despite progress
  • ↓Supporting Apple hardware feels misaligned with hacker/FOSS values
  • ↑Endorses the relicensing to GPL due to bad actors and LLM-assisted code laundering
  • ↓Questions the need for bare-metal Linux when Apple supports virtualization