Re:Ubuntu successfully virtualized on M1
by ogre_codes on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:48AM
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> But that's what it's about, more or less
It makes sense. Just not really a term I would use that way so never occurred to me in that context.
> If Apple retains some "secret magic sauce". However, on a level field, with full access to the hardware for everyone who asks, who can say?
That's not really what I was thinking.
If you build the CPU and the OS together, you can make optimizations which aren't available to more modular systems.
But that's what it's about, more or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software. While exact definitions of open, closed and proprietary software vary, no mainstream definition is related to "specific to an OS". Software can be single/multiplatform and it can be FOSS/proprietary, and those two axes are independent.
> Apple more or less designed this processor for running iOS & MacOS though so its going to have an edge regardless of quality of Linux drivers.
If Apple retains some "secret magic sauce", sure. However, on a level field, with full access to the hardware for everyone who asks, who can say?