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3D first-person shooter Quake 3 can run in Linux on an M1 Mac with the new graphics driver. Screenshot: Alyssa Rosenzweig & Asahi Lina/Asahi Linux Blog Independent developers working to get Linux ...

Apple is however providing unofficial support. This takes the form of the backend ABI's not radically changing to break what the Asahi team does. It also majorly took the form of adding raw image ...

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 ...

One of the key things that makes a Mac computer a Mac is clearly that it ships with Apple’s macOS software. But back when the company was still making Macs with Intel processors it was fairly easy to ...

The ongoing Asahi project to bring Linux to Apple Silicon has reached a milestone, adding the first conformant GPU driver for the family of chips. The Asahi Linux project for Mac first teased plans to ...

Highly anticipated: A few years after introducing Linux support for Apple's custom-designed Arm chips, Asahi developers are now shifting their focus to gaming. Getting modern Windows games to run on ...

The Asahi Linux project has released the first conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 drivers for Apple silicon Macs in a significant update for improved gaming performance on Macs running the Linux operating ...

[Alyssa Rosenzweig] has been tirelessly working on reverse engineering the GPU built into Apple’s M1 architecture as part of the Asahi Linux effort. If you’re not familiar, that’s the project adding ...

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 ...