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2025-04-15 15:42:51

Fedora Asahi Remix 42 is now available!
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-42-is-now-available/

2025-04-02 01:39:56

We're pleased to announce that folks can now contribute financially to the project through GitHub Sponsors! 🎉
https://github.com/sponsors/AsahiLinux

2025-03-21 00:02:04

Hello, is this thing on? Good!
With Linux 6.14 nearing release, here's a "quick" update on all the things that have happened!
https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14/

2025-03-18 14:53:10

We have announced the release of Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta!
As this is a beta release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. You can try out Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta by following our installation guide. Existing systems, running Fedora Asahi Remix 40 or 41, can be updated following the usual Fedora upgrade process.
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-beta/

2025-03-03 21:47:32

Our Touch Bar driver is now queued for merge into the mainline Linux 6.15 kernel, lightening our fork by a thousand lines 😄
..and there's more upstreaming news to come 😉
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-misc/commit/?id=332122eba628d537a1b7b96b976079753fd03039

2025-02-13 15:36:58

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Please consider supporting Asahi Linux on our Open Collective. Thank you.
https://opencollective.com/asahilinux

2025-02-13 15:36:42

With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog.
https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/

2025-02-01 08:37:45

PSA: We pushed a bad m1n1 update that broke on m2 Pro/Max laptops. If you have one of these laptops, please hold off on upgrading until the fixed package is pushed (~24h).
Sorry for the trouble. We're fixing it now.
To recover a broken machine, boot into macOS, then run:
diskutil list disk0 | grep EFI
Find the disk device on the right side, then:
sudo diskutil mount <the disk device>
cd /Volumes/*EFI*
cp m1n1/boot.bin.old m1n1/boot.bin
Then reboot back into Fedora, and don't update your system again until the fixed update is pushed.
If you have already updated, but have not rebooted yet, then run sudo dnf update --refresh which should grab the new update from our hotfixes repo.
Bad version: m1n1-1.4.19-1 (also 1.4.20 but this was never pushed)
Fixed version: m1n1-1.4.21-1
Update: We've pushed the fixed package through our hotfixes repo, so users who update and refresh the metadata cache (sudo dnf update --refresh) or whose cache expires going forward should not be affected. However, we still recommend holding off until the dust settles in ~24h if you are reading this message.

2024-12-02 19:04:23

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.

2024-11-23 14:23:56

PSA: Transitioning from zram+swap to zswap
Since the release of Fedora Asahi Remix, the default configuration for machines with 8GB and 16GB of RAM has been to enable zram along with an 8GB swapfile. We have concluded that this configuration is not effective, and can cause premature out-of-memory conditions (most commonly, oom-killer reports while using Firefox).
Starting now, a fedora-asahi-remix-scripts update will transition systems with swap enabled to use zswap and disable zram. The change will be effective after a reboot. Systems that do not already have a swapfile enabled (using the default config at /var/swap/swapfile) will not be affected, and will continue to use zram only (by default, this is the case for 24GB RAM and larger systems).
The new configuration ensures that on-disk swapspace can be fully utilized before the machine reaches an out-of-memory condition. However, due to the different behavior of zswap, the new configuration also reduces the maximum combined memory capacity of the system (RAM+swap) by around 4GB. For this reason, new systems will now default to a 12GB swap file (in the next release of the installation images).
Existing systems will not be automatically upgraded to a 12GB swap file. If you want to expand your swap file, you can do so by running sudo /usr/libexec/fedora-asahi-remix-scripts/setup-swap.sh --recreate 12G. You may also change the argument to any desired swapfile size.

2024-10-12 08:00:43

Small clarification: We consider the complete x86 emulation/Steam stack as a whole to be preview quality right now. The underlying GPU drivers, however (OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL) have passed hundreds of thousands of conformance tests and considered production quality for native apps running on the host system. Performance and (optional) features will improve over time as always, but they are certainly not alpha-quality.

2024-10-10 14:02:34

🎮 Announcing Steam gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix! 🎮
Get the scoop here: alx.sh/gaming.
... or just fully update your system, then dnf install steam and give it a go!
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2024-07-29 10:07:24

PSA: We have just pushed an incompatible UAPI change to our kernel and Mesa packages. Please do an offline PackageKit upgrade or, if you use dnf directly, reboot after the upgrade. GPU rendering will fall back to software rendering until the reboot.

2024-07-15 12:41:09

GPU acceleration support for Flatpak is finally coming to Fedora Asahi Remix! Try it out today:
sudo dnf copr enable @asahi/flatpak
sudo dnf install mesa-asahi-23.08-flatpak mesa-asahi-22.08-flatpak
Log out and back in for the changes to take effect, then launch any Flatpak that uses the GPU.
(Note: supported on the FDO 22.08 and 23.08 runtimes only, which covers the vast majority of Flatpaks)

2024-06-05 14:52:48

Introducing Honeykrisp: the world's first conformant Vulkan® 1.3 driver for Apple Silicon.
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html
https://cache.treehouse.systems/media_attachments/files/112/564/571/655/779/248/original/38780b96f636ec5a.png

2024-05-16 05:51:32

Important PSA: Do NOT update to macOS Sonoma 14.5
We are receiving reports that video output on some or all machines is broken after this update (possibly only desktops). We don't know yet whether this is an Apple regression or a bug/issue in our code. We are still investigating and will update with further details.

2024-05-09 05:25:09

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 images are now available on asahilinux.org! 🎉
This release brings lots of new updates, including the Plasma 6 desktop environment.
Existing users may upgrade by following the standard upgrade guide.
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