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Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits

Another developer has dropped out of Asahi Linux, the project to get Linux up and running on Apple silicon.… On Tuesday, a developer going by "Asahi Lina" announced she would be pausing work on Apple ...
Ars Technica

Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux ...
Liliputing

Lilbits: Arm IPO, Atari 2600+ and the “first conformant” GPU driver for Apple M1 and M2 chips

The folks behind Asahi Linux have been had to reverse engineer Apple’s CPU and GPU architecture in order to get Linux up and running on the latest Macs with Apple Silicon processors. But one of the ...
Liliputing

Intel hires developer who reverse engineered the Apple M1 GPU, bringing open source Linux graphics to Apple Silicon

When the Asahi Linux team released its first alpha version of a GNU/Linux-based operating system for Macs with Apple M-series processors in 2022, things were still pretty rough around the edges.
Ars Technica

Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs

But the technical "new frontiers" gap is now much smaller with Ashai and Raspberry GPU-related developments. You would still use the open source AMD driver, hopefully unmodified. Also some thunderbolt ...