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On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It's something I've been waiting
by ah- 4y ago
On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the
release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It's something I've
been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it's finally reality, thanks
to the Asahi team. We've had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a
long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development
platform until now.
It's the third time I'm using Apple hardware for Linux development - I
did it many years ago for powerpc development on a ppc970 machine.
And then a decade+ ago when the Macbook Air was the only real
thin-and-lite around. And now as an arm64 platform.
Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been
doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. But
I'm trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with
this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too.
- tux1968 4y agoFor anyone else that didn't know, Asahi is Linux crafted for the Apple M1 chip: https://asahilinux.org/about/ https://asahilinux.org/about/
- rowanG077 4y agoAwesome! I remember Linus wanting to use the M1 macbooks but he was very somber on Linux working on there.
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- jasoneckert 4y agoDitto here - I've been using Asahi as my daily driver (development workstation) for over 3 months now with no plans on changing from it any time soon: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/asahi-linux/ https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/asahi-linux/
- blt 4y agoexcitedly waiting for video output and sleep to work on the laptops!