Linux For Apple Silicon Macs Gets Closer To Reality

'Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Macs is moving closer to reality,' writes Slashdot reader TroysBucket.

An Asahi developer posted a detailed status update on Twitter. Linux enthusiast Bryan Lunduke offers this succinct summary:

- The Asahi Linux team has Linux (Debian, in this case) booting and usable with network support.

- They now have (very early) display drivers which 'take full advantage of the display hardware.'

- They have at least two base distributions — both Arch and Debian — working and functional (to some extent).

They also have, according to their latest update, 'boot picker' support so that you can manually select which OS / Drive to boot from on the M1 Macs... I, for one, can't wait to see the first public, functional release of Asahi Linux — and will be following it extremely closely.

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