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Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support

23 points ADevWithAnIdea 4 hours ago 8 comments

yonatan8070 3 hours ago | parent

Is this related to Asahi Linux in any way? Or is it a completely separate project for some reason?

VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago | parent

Seems to be 100% entirely different, as Asahi uses Arch, this is on Fedora.

porphyra 2 hours ago | parent

Asahi is on Fedora now (and has been for a couple of years)

wolrah 3 hours ago | parent

https://gravitylinux.org/about/

> Gravity Linux vs Asahi Linux

> Gravity Linux and Asahi Linux are two independent projects working towards the shared goal of a strong, open OS ecosystem on Apple Silicon devices. Gravity Linux was initially forked from Asahi Linux over differences in policy, namely regarding LLM use. We have tremendous respect for the Asahi Linux project and emphasize our shared goal of running Linux on Apple Silicon.

OP is the same poster from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717638 who was noted as having been banned from Asahi Linux over hiding use of LLMs (doesn't seem to be any disagreement about this) and accusations of having Apple proprietary knowledge (challenged by OP).

ADevWithAnIdea 2 hours ago | parent

> hiding use of LLMs

I disagree with this also, but the latter was so obviously wrong that I figured I should leave a reply. We are separate projects and what Asahi does is their business, our interactions will be in upstream projects and follow upstream guidelines.

porphyra 2 hours ago | parent

It's kinda sad that this cool project is mired in controversy. On one hand it is kinda radioactive for a former Apple engineer to work on this, even if you worked on something else entirely while at Apple. On the other hand I really, really want proper Linux support with full GPU support on modern Macs and I feel like AI is an incredibly useful tool towards that effort.

Oh well, if this doesn't pan out, hopefully someone else will vibe code for a week and get it working in the near future.

sh4jid 2 hours ago | parent

From a brief look, it seems separate from Asahi, although it builds on some of Asahi's existing work. I'm still not clear why it needed to be a separate project rather than contributing M4 support upstream. Could be a good reason, but it does look a bit duplicative at first glance.

tiahura 2 hours ago | parent

Asahi is aiphobic