Asahi Linux conformant to OpenGL 4.6 & OpenGL ES 3.2 on Apple Silicon Macs
The Asahi Linux project for Apple Silicon Macs has just become conformant to OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2, surpassing Apple's current support.
The Asahi Linux project for Apple Silicon Macs has just become conformant to OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2, surpassing Apple's current support.
If you have an old iMac from the early 2000s, you can breathe new life into the hardware by turning it into a Steam gaming machine. Here's how.
The ongoing Asahi project to bring Linux to Apple Silicon has reached a milestone, adding the first conformant GPU driver for the family of chips.
The Mac has taken a back seat to Linux as the number two operating system in use by customers of Valve Software's Steam gaming service, according to the company's most recently polled survey data.
Linux 6.2 brings native support for M1 processors on Mac, but it isn't totally finished or ready for primetime.
Asahi, a project to bring Linux to the Apple Silicon Mac, has released a new progress report that details expanded USB and peripheral support.
The latest release of Linux 5.19 has more of an Apple angle than usual, with Linus Torvalds releasing it using an M2 MacBook Air running a version of Linux ported to Apple Silicon.
The Asahi Linux for Mac project has made some improvements, with the latest version adding initial support for M2 chips as well as the Mac Studio, along with Bluetooth.
The newest update of the Linux kernel, version 5.13, has been released with support for the Apple Silicon system-on-chip, the M1.
The latest version of the Linux kernel, Linux 5.13, introduces support for Apple's M1 system-on-chip and is now available as a release candidate.
Preliminary support for the Apple Silicon M1 processor is now expected in Linux 5.13, though it may still be years before it's fully finished.
Working with Apple Silicon directly is a tough task, a developer attempting to port Linux to run natively on the M1 chip advises, with Apple using a highly customized process to boot the Mac that is different from versions used by other 64-bit ARM systems.
A decade-old flaw found in the Sudo tool could lead to root access on Unix-based systems, including macOS Big Sur and earlier versions.
Linux now works on the Mac mini with M1 processor — but Apple did not make it easy for the team to port the OS with its custom firmware and unique data paths. Here's how Corellium got it done.
Security researchers at Corellium have ported a version of Linux to the Apple Silicon M1 chip that will ultimately be released under an open-source license.
A new form of browser-based cross-platform malware can give hackers remote access to computers running Apple's OS X, Microsoft's Windows, and even Linux.
Experimenters have discovered the configuration files Apple removed from the public release of Mac OS X 10.6.5; adding them back restores the ability to print from iOS devices to shared printers on the Mac.
Apple's iOS mobile operating system rocketed past the open source Linux this summer to become the third most popular Web browsing platform on the Internet.
Speaking to Wall Street analysts, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer noted that tablets are a big issue for the company and expressed concern about Apple's success with iPad.
A programmer has managed to run the Google Android mobile operating system on an iPhone, with features like browsing the Web and making phone calls functional on Apple's hardware.
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