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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by vorpalhex on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:18PM (#30030687)
You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.
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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by DrBenCarson on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:37PM (#30041070)
I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1…

It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper

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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by vorpalhex on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:26AM (#30043866)
I can write a program and send it to my friend - and they can actually run it - without me paying $99/year to Apple.

Try that on your M1.

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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by DrBenCarson on Sunday January 23, 2022 @06:09AM (#30045312)
You can run unsigned software on an M1 Mac, clicking “run anyway” isn’t that hard lol
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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by vorpalhex on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:27PM (#30050594)
That is untrue for native arm apps. The OS actually requires signing. If you are running an x86 app through Rosetta you can currently avoid code signing requirement.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...

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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by DrBenCarson on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:49PM (#30081442)
What’s the big deal? They don’t require it to be notarized. You can self-sign.

Quite frankly no one should be running unsigned binaries regardless of OS or architecture.

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