marcan
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Hello, world!
🕑 Added 2020-11-30 16:54:23 +0000 UTCThank you so much for dropping by! I hope I can get the support to make this project a reality.
I'm currently tying up other work and projects, so I expect to begin work on this port in January, if we reach the $4k goal by then. If we do reach the goal ahead of time, I'll order an M1 Mac Mini so I have that on hand as soon as possible.
Currently, my main workstation is a Late 2015 iMac Retina 5K, which does have a couple small warts in Linux support, so I might spend some time addressing those as a warm-up while this project kicks off. Stay tuned for that :-)
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Get er done!!
Andrew Borne
same with me!
Great done move on with this project!! I will post it on my LinkedIn too!!
Dean Herbert
probably don't have much use for this personally, but watching on will be fun :)
Artemis Tosini
Oh nowo
Hector Martin
Basic headless use will probably happen pretty fast compared to everything else :-)
I'll probably upgrade when M2 or M3 comes out, so I'd love to use my M1 Mac Mini as a Linux box!
Waiting for this!. As soon as ssh works I'd be so interested to acquire one and use it as an aarch64 build server. My current one using Cortex-a57 is getting old....
best of luck!
I'm mostly excited about linux on an M1 not so much for a desktop, but for a mini server. An ultra low power, compact, silent, super fast headless server.
I'm Apple Silicon OwO
Excited to be on board. Glad to test with my MBA M1 whenever there are builds that won't fry the poor thing :)
Manawyrm
Awesome! Best of luck!
Some Guy
RISC is good etc. etc. pls linux kthx
Hector Martin
Most Linux apps are already available in AArch64 versions as part of Linux distribution ARM support, so things should mostly Just Work for typical distribution packages. An emulation option a la Rosetta already exists, though (qemu-user), though it certainly won't be quite as polished/fast as Rosetta is at this point.
If you do succeed with this I assume all Linux apps (that you want to use) would need to be recompiled specifically for M1? Or would there be a virtualization option like Apple has now for x86?
Hector Martin
Precisely because of that: because you always want to start with the simplest platform first. I also expect the thing to end up in pieces, and I might kill it if I'm unlucky, so I'd want the cheapest option in case that happens.
Why ordering a Mac Mini ? No webcam, no battery to test power management. Anyway, mac mini can be good to start with I guess. Looking forward to seeing this becoming reality !
Very excited about this project!
Let's go!
Excited to be a part of this!
Very excited for this!
\o/
DannyK
LET'S GO!
