Asahi projekt, mis on suunatud Linuxi portimisele Apple M1 (Apple Silicon) ARM-protsessoriga Mac arvutitele, on esitanud oma esimesed alfa versiooni standardse distributsiooni, mis vÔimaldab igal huvilisel tutvuda projekti hetke arengutasemega. Distributsioon toetab installimist seadmetes, millel on M1, M1 Pro ja M1 Max. TÀheldatakse, et kogu versioonid ei ole veel tavakasutamiseks valmis, kuid need sobivad arendajatele ja edasijÔudnud kasutajatele esialgseks tutvumiseks.
Asahi Linux pĂ”hineb Arch Linuxi pakettbaasil, sisaldab traditsioonilist rakenduste kogumit ja tarnitakse KDE Plasma lauaarvutiga. Distributsioon on loodud Arch Linuxi ametlike hoidlate kasutamisel, samas kui kĂ”ik spetsiifilised muudatused, nagu kernel, installija, laadimisprogramm, abiskriptiid ja keskkonna seaded, on eraldi hoidlas. Projekti eesmĂ€rk on tagada Linuxi töö Apple M1 sĂŒsteemides laiemalt ja edendada sellise toe tekkimist teiste distributsioonide seas.
Distributsiooni installimiseks on ette valmistatud macOS-i shelli skript («curl https://alx.sh | sh»), mis sĂ”ltuvalt valitud variantidest laadib alla 700MB kuni 4GB andmeid ja loob Linuxi keskkonna, mida saab kasutada kĂ”rval juba olemasoleva macOS sĂŒsteemiga. Installimiseks on vajalik vĂ€hemalt 53 GB vaba kettaruumi (15GB Linuxi distributsiooni jaoks ja 38GB reserveerimiseks macOS-i uuenduste nĂ”uetekohaseks installimiseks). Asahi Linuxi installimine ei riku olemasoleva macOS keskkonna toimimist, vĂ€lja arvatud macOS-is kasutatava kettaparti suuruse vĂ€hendamine.
On the announced support for the proper operation in the distribution of Wi-Fi, USB2 (Thunderbolt ports), USB3 (Mac Mini Type A ports), display, NVMe drives, Ethernet, SD card reader, laptop lid switch, built-in display, keyboard, touchpad, keyboard backlight control, CPU frequency switching, and battery charge information. On M1 systems, the headphone jack also works, and on Mac Mini devices, HDMI output is available. Components whose support is in the final stage and will soon be available include USB3, built-in speakers, and display controller (backlight, V-Sync, power management).
Among the currently unsupported components are: GPU accelerated graphics processing, hardware acceleration of video codecs, DisplayPort, camera, touch bar, Thunderbolt, HDMI in MacBook, Bluetooth, machine learning accelerator, deep CPU power-saving modes. The distribution includes all standard packages from Arch Linux repositories, but some applications have specific unresolved issues mainly due to the kernel being built with a 16KB memory page size. For example, problems have been observed with Chromium, Emacs, lvm2, f2fs, and packages using the jemalloc library (for example, Rust) or the electron platform (vscode, spotify, etc.). Issues were noted with applications using the libunwind and webkitgtk libraries, but fixes have already been formulated for them.
The distribution can be used without fear of legal issues â Apple normally allows the loading of unsigned kernel binaries on its computers without the need for jailbreak. The project is completely legal as no code from macOS and Darwin is used in the port, and the specifics of hardware interaction are defined based on reverse engineering, which is permitted by law in many countries to ensure compatibility.
Allikas: opennet.ru
