The goal is to provide stable, fully-featured Ubuntu installs for Apple silicon hardware. It’s lead by Canonical’s Tobias Heider, who works as a Security and Cryptography Engineer at the company. Strictly a community effort (not supported by Canonical – yet), it marries the marvellous engineering work done by Asahai devs with the Ubuntu desktop stack. Which is precisely what the Ubuntu Asahi project is doing. “Our goal is for all distros to eventually integrate all this work”, Asahi devs said in August, when announcing their own flagship distro, Fedora Asahi Remix, the purpose of which is to “prototype what this integration looks like” for other projects to learn from. Put simply, Linux was born to run where it shouldn’t. That this is possible at all is a testament to the skills of those working on Asahi, and also to the malleability of the Linux kernel. There’s even formative GPU acceleration allowing undemanding games to be played. Yet it’s paying off big time – Asahi Linux is already usable on M1 and M2 Macs. ![]() ![]() ![]() This monumental feat requires reverse engineering, debugging, creating brand new drivers, and all sort of technical head-scratching to come up with technical solutions to hardware not readily documented. It’s the Asahi project doing the “grunt” work to get Linux working on Apple silicon. If you’re familiar with efforts to get Linux running on Apple silicon you’ll have heard of the Asahi Linux project, which is headed by a phenomenally talented developer and engineer called Hector Martin. Ubuntu Asahi is a community project that brings a full Ubuntu desktop experience to Apple silicon Macs.
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