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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by novafunc on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:03AM (#49587161)
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.

Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by vallerie on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:12AM (#49587264)
Would 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.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by iscmt on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:42AM (#49587616)
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by dymk on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:03PM (#49589131)
Discussed there, but shame the original linked tweet is deleted
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by bitpush on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:12AM (#49587261)
Source? It's a welcome thing but very much not like Apple.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by robertoandred on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:59AM (#49587801)
Apple has a long long history of supporting open source.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cute_boi on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:48PM (#49588326)
can you please tell us what have they done for open source except LLVM.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by mikestew on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:18PM (#49588661)
Probably 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/

Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cute_boi on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:42AM (#49593975)
Basically nothing except swift and llvm.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by happymellon on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:05AM (#49594467)
They are able to rebrand other peoples stuff!
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by mikestew on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:39AM (#49594289)
I mean, if you can’t read I could see how one might walk away with that impression.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cute_boi on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:02AM (#49594432)
My 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.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by mikestew on Monday September 07, 2026 @10:26AM (#49598851)
…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.

Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cute_boi on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:17PM (#49599995)
mistaken? Looks like you can't comprehend goalposts with common sense. Apple isn't random acme company we are comparing here.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by gehsty on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:00PM (#49589098)
LLVM / Swift / Webkit & XNU (I don’t really know of anything using Xnu up stream but the others are large open source projects?)
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by juiceland on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:00PM (#49588464)
Swift, WebKit, Darwin/XNU, MLX, FoundationDB, Container, Pkl, libdispatch (GCD), CUPS, CareKit, ResearchKit, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Spark, Netty, Solr…
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by lokar on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#49590121)
Sure, but other then language tools, databases, printing, container orchestration, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by Danox on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:28PM (#49593167)
If 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.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by bigyabai on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:03PM (#49600498)
~85% of the things they mentioned were Mac-exclusive software, so that's more of a question for yourself than the greater FOSS community.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cute_boi on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:44AM (#49593983)
If you see google and microsoft contribution to OSS, apple contribution to OSS is basically nothing.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by burtness on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:59PM (#49588458)
and CUPS
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by GeekyBear on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:00PM (#49591383)
Clang, OpenCL, MLX
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by cozzyd on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:36PM (#49593216)
Don'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.
Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by bigyabai on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:59PM (#49600440)
> "What has Apple ever done for Open Source?"

> proceeds to name three of the worst-managed projects in the history of FOSS software