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Apple made some changes specifically for Asahi Linux to make it more robust. I believe it was Hector Martin who discussed it on Mastodon a while ago.
by novafunc 10d ago
Apple made some changes specifically for Asahi Linux to make it more robust.
I believe it was Hector Martin who discussed it on Mastodon a while ago.
- bitpush 10d agoSource? It's a welcome thing but very much not like Apple.
- robertoandred 10d agoApple has a long long history of supporting open source.
- cute_boi 10d agocan you please tell us what have they done for open source except LLVM.
- burtness 10d agoand CUPS
- juiceland 10d agoSwift, WebKit, Darwin/XNU, MLX, FoundationDB, Container, Pkl, libdispatch (GCD), CUPS, CareKit, ResearchKit, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Spark, Netty, Solr…
- lokar 10d agoSure, but other then language tools, databases, printing, container orchestration, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?
- Danox 10d agoIf you have the will, and the knowledge all of those tools can be used to your advantage but no one has for the most part they want someone else to do it for them for free.
- bigyabai 9d ago~85% of the things they mentioned were Mac-exclusive software, so that's more of a question for yourself than the greater FOSS community.
- cute_boi 10d agoIf you see google and microsoft contribution to OSS, apple contribution to OSS is basically nothing.
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- mikestew 10d agoProbably took me less time to search “Apple open source” and click the first link than it did to type your question: https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/
- cute_boi 10d agoBasically nothing except swift and llvm.
- mikestew 10d agoI mean, if you can’t read I could see how one might walk away with that impression.
- cute_boi 10d agoMy argument was apple is doing nothing much for open source, then you suddenly come with link that shows Apple has done nothing for open source compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta.
- mikestew 10d ago…compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta. So you can read, you just moved the goalposts when you were shown to be mistaken.
- cute_boi 9d agomistaken? Looks like you can't comprehend goalposts with common sense. Apple isn't random acme company we are comparing here.
- happymellon 10d agoThey are able to rebrand other peoples stuff!
- gehsty 10d agoLLVM / Swift / Webkit & XNU (I don’t really know of anything using Xnu up stream but the others are large open source projects?)
- GeekyBear 10d agoClang, OpenCL, MLX
- cozzyd 10d agoDon't they ship a propetietary clang variant with weirdass version numbers? That was true at least at some point. Fortunately most Mac users on my experiments have given up attempting to compile any code in their Macs after SIP etc made it too annoying so rarely have to support them anymore.
- bigyabai 9d ago> "What has Apple ever done for Open Source?" > proceeds to name three of the worst-managed projects in the history of FOSS software
- vallerie 10d agoWould you happen to have a link to this? I would like to learn about this but unfortunately treehouse.systems doesn't seem to be very well indexed by search engines, and Mastodon's search is failing me.
- iscmt 10d agoDiscussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
- dymk 10d agoDiscussed there, but shame the original linked tweet is deleted