Re:Apple M3 Ultra
by ryao on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:34AM
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Given shared heritage, I would expect to see Apple work with FreeBSD before I would expect Apple to work with Linux.
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I heard OpenBSD has been working for a while.
I’m continually surprised Apple doesn’t just donate something like 0.1% of their software development budget to proton and the asahi projects. It’d give them a big chunk of the gaming and server markets pretty much overnight.
I guess they’re too busy adding dark patterns that re-enable siri and apple intelligence instead.
The server markets want ECC and Apple has largely stopped shipping ECC. I don’t recall seeing any assurances that the ARM Mac Pro had ECC.
Re:Apple M3 Ultra
by stego-tech on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:47AM
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You are technically correct (the best kind of correct). I’m just a filthy heathen who lumps the BSDs and Linux distros under “Linux” as an incredibly incorrect catchall for casual discourse.
Re:Apple M3 Ultra
by barryrandall on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:29AM
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Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.