This is cool news. Given Apple’s history, there’s something rather interesting about Haiku, a BeOS clone, running natively on Apple Silicon, like stepping into an alternate universe.
On another note, while I’m grateful for Asahi Linux, Haiku, and other efforts to bring alternative operating systems to Apple Silicon, I wish Apple provided more documentation. It took the Asahi Linux team tremendous effort to get its OS running on M1 and M2 Macs, and it’s still going to be a while until we see M4 and M5 Macs run alternative operating systems. macOS is a great desktop OS, but it’s nice having diversity, especially when the hardware eventually gets unsupported by Apple.
Funny, I was just thinking about getting an old Intel Mac mini that I could use to play around with Haiku and a few other things. Maybe I’ll revisit those plans.
linguae | 9 hours ago
On another note, while I’m grateful for Asahi Linux, Haiku, and other efforts to bring alternative operating systems to Apple Silicon, I wish Apple provided more documentation. It took the Asahi Linux team tremendous effort to get its OS running on M1 and M2 Macs, and it’s still going to be a while until we see M4 and M5 Macs run alternative operating systems. macOS is a great desktop OS, but it’s nice having diversity, especially when the hardware eventually gets unsupported by Apple.
alterom | 9 hours ago
This incentivizes me to actually get an M1 Mac.
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