Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
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Get back to me when you've got it running on a dead badger:
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2021/04/dead-badger/
/humor, in case you were wondering.
(More seriously: this is great stuff, but it's on a desktop Mac Mini; I suspect getting it running on an iPad Pro might be just slightly harder ...)
Thats great. The Mini leaning on the screen like that is only mildly triggering me.
How is GPU support going?
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Free work for the richest company in the world so that their overpriced locked in unrepairable computers can run an open source OS and divert revenue from competitors that natively support linux.
I don't believe I've seen work that advocates against itself harder than this. Competitors that actually care about linux support should be the ones worked towards, and the ones that should receive your money.
Any expectations that Debian GNU/Linux would be faster on this device than Apple’s own optimized OS should be tempered with a dose of reality; that said, there must be a headless arm64/M1-optimized Darwin variant in-house that it would be curious to benchmark against.
Is it fast?
Interesting.. Now FreeBSD :)
This is excellent to see. The only possible good use of a Mac, is to run Linux on it. This has been true since the PowerPC days, and it's still true today. Though, today, you're probably better off just buying a normal PC and loading your favorite distro on it.