Fedora Asahi Remix 45 has been released, a distribution for Apple ARM chips.

The Fedora Asahi Remix 45 distribution has been released, designed for installation on Mac computers equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple. Fedora Asahi Remix 45 is based on the Fedora Linux 45 package base and comes with the Calamares installer. Originally, the Asahi Linux distribution was developed based on Arch Linux, but in 2023 it was transitioned to the Fedora package base, allowing a focus on reverse engineering and hardware support while transferring the assembly of the installable distribution to the Fedora Asahi SIG working group.

Fedora Asahi Remix supports operation on Apple Mac systems equipped with Apple Silicon ARM chips — M1, M2, M3, and M4, used in devices like Mac Mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, Mac Studio, and iMac. On devices with M1, M2, and M3 chips, the following are fully supported: Apple's audio subsystem, camera, microphone, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, input devices, USB Type C (USB 3.0), and MagSafe charging. Currently unsupported are: connecting a display via USB-C, Thunderbolt/USB4, and Touch ID.

KDE Plasma 6.8 is included as the default user environment, but an optional edition with GNOME 51, as well as a minimalist build, is available. servers In the editions with KDE and GNOME, Wayland is used, and X11 applications are run using the XWayland DDX server. The graphics drivers support OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and Vulkan 1.4 (the native graphics drivers for Apple M1 chips only implement the OpenGL 4.1 specification).

To run separate virtual machines applications compiled for x86_64 systems, the muvm toolkit and an emulation layer based on the FEX package are provided. The emulation supports GPU passthrough and the use of Wine with the DXVK and vkd3d-proton layers to run computer games compiled for the x86_64 architecture and distributed via the Steam catalog.

In addition to changes typical for the Fedora Linux 45 release, there is official support for Apple devices with M3 chips. It is stated that operation on MacBook and iMac devices of the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max series is possible. The hardware support level for Apple M3 is close to that for M1 and M2 devices. Functionality limitations when working on M3 systems are related to incomplete support for the display processor (DCP) and GPU, as well as insufficient performance and power efficiency when using 3D acceleration.

Source: opennet.ru