Apple's newest MacBooks can now boot Linux.
Linus Torvalds just released Linux kernel 7.2, and buried inside the changelog is initial support for Apple's M3 chip.
There is no official driver, no documentation, no cooperation from Apple at all.
The Asahi Linux team spent months reverse-engineering Apple Silicon from scratch, with zero help from the company that built it.
Right now it only boots to a serial console. Full graphics acceleration is still a work in progress.
But the hardest part is done. The M3, one of Apple's most locked-down chips, now runs code Apple never signed off on.
Back in 2020, Torvalds himself said getting Linux running on Apple Silicon looked like too much work for him personally to take on.
A small team of volunteers started the project anyway in early 2021.
Five years later, one MacBook at a time, they are quietly proving that a locked platform is not the same thing as an impossible one.
Source:
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