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The Asahi Linux group goal should have been organizing themselves by taking out a license on Arm processor (probably too late with the present owners) and building a new Linux Distro to go with it instead of being a parasite on someone else’s existing hardware, if the three ex-engineers from Apple could do something like that why couldn’t they aim higher?

Why waste time spending years reverse engineering. Wouldn’t it have been easier to raise money for such an endeavor? I hope someone will come along in the future in kindergarten, junior high or high school who doesn’t know any better will try something like this. I’m too old. for such a journey.

by steve19771 days ago|

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What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?

I get it on Windows systems, at least when someone wants to use Linux-type tooling. But macOS already supports pretty much all of that natively?

by dylan6041 days ago|

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Comparing to Linux is too general. You need to say what distro and what install level. I really only use headless Linux, but I've never logged into a fresh install and not had to do some sort of 'apt install devel-packages' equivalent for which ever distro being used. That's the same thing with macOS after choosing which package manager to use. I don't see how Linux vs macOS is very different

by RunSet1 days ago|

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> What exactly is missing from macOS that makes you feel the need for Linux?

For starters, the source code.

by steve19771 days ago|

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And why would you need that to run LLMs?

Apart from that, for the UNIX part, the source is available for quite a few components:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions