Asahi Linux

For those unaware, Christop Hellwig is the Linux maintainer who tried to block Rust bindings for DMA.

Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA subsystem. Hellwig previously blocked rust bindings for DMA code, which in part resulted in Hector Martin from stepping down as a kernel maintainer and eventually Asahi Linux as a whole.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1679968

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.

Today, the Khronos Group released the 1.4 specification of Vulkan, the standard graphics API. The Asahi Linux project is proud to announce the first Vulkan 1.4 driver for Apple hardware. Our Honeykrisp driver is Khronos-recognized as conformant to the new version since day one.

That driver is already available in our official repositories. After installing Fedora Asahi Remix, run dnf upgrade --refresh to get the latest drivers.

Vulkan 1.4 standardizes several important features, including timestamps and dynamic rendering local read. The industry expects that these features will become more common, and we are prepared.

Releasing a conformant driver reflects our commitment to graphics standards and software freedom. Asahi Linux is also compatible with OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0, all conformant to the relevant specifications. For that matter, ours are the only conformant drivers on Apple hardware for any graphics standard graphics.

Although the driver is released, you still need to build an experimental version of Vulkan-Loader to access the new Vulkan version. Nevertheless, you can immediately use all the new features as extensions in Vulkan 1.3 driver.

For more information, see the Khronos blog post.

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Hey everyone, I hope this post would get people interested in sharing their Asahi fedora experience.

I’ve been fiddling around lately with Asahi Linux ,installing and testing every version (KDE, GNOME…).

I’m interested in the minimalist software philosophy so I recently Installed the Gnome version (since it comes with xorg by default) and managed to get dwm window manager working on it.

Unfortunately I’m left with a lot of Gnome packages that I don’t care about. So I installed the minimal version along with xorg packages to start dwm. However, I’m having difficulties to start and configure the server…

So my question is: did anyone achieve what I’m trying to do? And if so what difficulties did you face? Also do you prefer running a desktop environment or a wm on wayland/Xwayland or xorg and why?