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Even if laptop support is not there yet, I think a Mac Mini (or Mac Studio, if supported) with Asahi Linux would make a fantastic Linux machine for AArch64 deve
by microtonal 5y ago
Even if laptop support is not there yet, I think a Mac Mini (or Mac Studio, if supported) with Asahi Linux would make a fantastic Linux machine for AArch64 development or build servers. Perhaps ironically, Apple's Mac Mini may be the best the performance per dollar AArch64 Linux machine you can currently get. What a time to live :).
- marcan_42 5y agoMac Studio isn't supported yet, but I expect bring-up to take a day or two once mine arrives! Some upstream kernel folks are already using Apple Silicon machines for development (to compile x86 kernels even) because they're faster than their x86 boxes, by a good margin :-). My M1 Pro laptop is about as fast at doing kernel builds as my 16-core Threadripper.