Apple’s macOS is a fantastic operating system and the latest version of “Big Sur” has been optimized to run natively on Apple’s new Apple Silicon hardware, allowing you to take advantage of all the hardware and energy efficiency improvements. A new report suggests that official Linux support for the Mac M1 could also arrive in June.
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This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of organizations working to run Linux on new Apple hardware; at the beginning of this year, reported that researchers at the security firm Corellium announced that they had successfully booted and run Ubuntu Linux on a Mac M1. However, according to PhoronixIt seems that Linux 5.13 could provide official support for Apple’s M1 processor.
Linux kernel version 5.13, due out in June, seems to have brought things to a state where it can be run on hardware, or official support It can be added. What does this mean for the average user who wants to install Linux? If you own a Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air powered by Apple Silicon from last year, chances are you’ll be able to run a Linux distro like Ubuntu and Fedora by the end of the year.
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New Apple hardware runs on the ARM processor architecture and therefore requires additional work to provide the same feature support as an Intel or AMD processor. Rather than running the emulated operating system, the Linux kernel could also allow distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora to take advantage of better performance and the tremendous battery efficiency offered by the M1 processor, in the latest Macs and Apple MacBooks.
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