Talk:Asahi Linux

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Some more references

This page is pretty sparse -- here are some more sources for further content. I've omitted articles focusing on the m1racles bug which I think is out of scope for this article, it's already (rightfully) covered on marcan's biography.

(I would work on this myself but I have a COI)

ZDnet [1] [2]
Golem.de (German language) [3] [4]
Arstechnica [5]
Linux-magazin [6]

Arzg (talk) 14:56, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Arzg: Thanks for the links, I knew it was pretty sparse when I created it, but it was better than nothing. I'll look into expanding it. PhotographyEdits (talk) 16:09, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've expanded the article quite a bit as the recent alpha release has meant there is a lot more coverage in sources, so it's no longer a stub. Arzg, you have my complete and utter support with getting the GPU acceleration working; having an alternative OS that can be supported forever and ever is a major step forward for these Macs, and once the core firmware support is in place, the open source nature will mean development and support will explode and give macOS a run for its money. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers :-) Arzg (talk) 21:46, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 02:20, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that you can now run Linux on an Apple silicon Mac? Source: "Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs." https://asahilinux.org
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rachel Dyer

5x expanded by Ritchie333 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hook sounds a bit like an ad, but article is neutral Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted to Prep 6. Z1720 (talk) 02:20, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"recruited" text is misleading

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The page says "Martin announced the project in December 2020, and formally started it a month later, after securing funding of around $4,000 per month. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who developed the open source graphics driver stack Panfrost, was recruited to help work on support for the Apple Silicon graphics processing unit (GPU).[5]".

I was not "recruited", Asahi is a hobby project for me, not something I'm paid for.

The cited ref says only "The Asahi project today also announced it had gained the help of Alyssa Rosenzweig", which doesn't have those implications.

I would appreciate if this could be amended, before citogenesis kicks in ;-) Thanks! -Arzg (talk) 16:32, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]