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 @marcan I think you described it that initial way in the Ubuntu Asahi talk, which I recently saw on Youtube. You also mentioned there something quite interesting: that Asahi Linux is not really a distro, but works with distros. Yet Asahi Linux was a thing before the recent Fedora and Ubuntu flavors. So what was that back then based on, was it still Fedora-based, or suse, debian, arch, gentoo, sth else...? 5 comments
@raulinbonn It was based on ArchLinux ARM, which is a fork of ArchLinux to add support for a couple of ARM architectures (see https://archlinuxarm.org if you're interested). It's maintained by a single person, who's doing a good job considering, but it's not maintained and tested enough to be relied upon, so when Fedora (which already supported aarch64 officially) integrated the Asahi bits, they became the recommended distro.  @raulinbonn @marcan it was Arch Linux ARM (ALARM) based. Which, if I'm not mistaken, looks like arch linux but is actually a separate, kinda poorly maintained project (that's why asahi decided to move to fedora) @czero @1ace @viraptor @marcan Thanks a lot to all! Gee I should have remembered it was Arch. I see the inflexion point / switch was about March 2023, but I follow Asahi Lina since some time in second half of 2022, when she was still sort of with the preliminaries of the Rust driver. So I should have seen here and there on her videos that it was Arch-based.  @raulinbonn @marcan The initial (alpha) Asahi Linux release installed Arch Linux ARM + the asahi extra packages (kernel etc). And now the Asahi Linux release installs a Fedora with the few required packages. (As far as I know, hopefully I just spared macron some work, and otherwise I shall stand corrected) |
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@raulinbonn @marcan arch https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109971521711413167