Seems like Hector (though talented) was the wrong person for the job. Rather than do what's best for Apple Silicon support they turned it into a Rust crusade. And I like Rust.
Linux on new Macs is pretty toxic except as an intellectual or academic exercise. With the industry transition to AI-as-a-platform, the hardware that these Asahi devs are working on (m1..m5) has no real preservation value (even with 128GB RAM --look at the crazy bad TOPS and existing macOS VM capabilities).
If one looks at Project DIGITS, a game changer for Apple and Microsoft, that system boots Linux and can then run any number of knock offs of the Mac/MSWindows style GUI (which is all obsolete now --all that's needed is a simple webUI and AI speech/video interface), nVidia/MediaTek didn't have to spend any time/money (other than BSP/drivers and DevOps) to get the System up and running. In olden days, that could have caused a hardware competitor to carefully consider the future of maintaining a legacy and proprietary OS, but here in the future, Apple has trillions of dollars and still too much pride (until its execs retire Real Soon Now) to allow a competitive effort to MacOS to rise up (maybe it will live on as a sort of Mac-esq Dex®-type environment for iPhone/iPad/XR someday).
Would like to see the third party engineering effort go instead towards supporting nVidia and CUDA on the new Macs via Thunderbolt.
I don't see how AI has anything to do with it. I have been running asahi Linux for more then a year with less issues then running a Dell XPS before that. I don't think calling it an intellectual exercise is fair here. These MacBooks are better Linux devices then a lot of laptops. With some hardware support still missing currently.
[+] [-] ChrisArchitect|1 year ago|reply
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062
[+] [-] 2OEH8eoCRo0|1 year ago|reply
[+] [-] codecraze|1 year ago|reply
[+] [-] vaxman|1 year ago|reply
If one looks at Project DIGITS, a game changer for Apple and Microsoft, that system boots Linux and can then run any number of knock offs of the Mac/MSWindows style GUI (which is all obsolete now --all that's needed is a simple webUI and AI speech/video interface), nVidia/MediaTek didn't have to spend any time/money (other than BSP/drivers and DevOps) to get the System up and running. In olden days, that could have caused a hardware competitor to carefully consider the future of maintaining a legacy and proprietary OS, but here in the future, Apple has trillions of dollars and still too much pride (until its execs retire Real Soon Now) to allow a competitive effort to MacOS to rise up (maybe it will live on as a sort of Mac-esq Dex®-type environment for iPhone/iPad/XR someday).
Would like to see the third party engineering effort go instead towards supporting nVidia and CUDA on the new Macs via Thunderbolt.
[+] [-] rowanG077|1 year ago|reply
[+] [-] e40|1 year ago|reply