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Some Open-Source Projects Begin Quickly Working Towards macOS ARM64 Support
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostSo that is why I am interested in knowing if Apple will even let us boot alternative operating systems. Otherwise it is a useless paperweight clogging up storage for the next 5 years haha.
Somewhere in this podcast (English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9F1Qjv3iU
Or summarized in this tech site (Spanish): https://www.genbeta.com/mac/apple-co...-versiones-arm
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Originally posted by edwaleni View PostLooks like the people at Codeweavers saw the light last year (or got tipped off) when they decided to port WINE to ARM.
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Originally posted by Dawn View PostApple said more Intel coming, not more x86 coming.
Rumor is that iMac and MBP are the first systems to move to ARM.
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Originally posted by Dawn View PostThe current Windows/ARM laptops can run Linux, although hardware support is iffy (although it's been improving.) I expect similar to be the case with the Apple machines; rumor is that secure boot can be disabled, but I wouldn't expect there to be Linux drivers for Apple's custom GPU, etc, any time soon.
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Originally posted by edwaleni View PostLooks like the people at Codeweavers saw the light last year (or got tipped off) when they decided to port WINE to ARM.
Not a new idea to port to arm.
Wine arm support work goes back over a decade. Of course finding windows arm executable have been very hard.
Hangover to support arm some what starts before Apple gets this idea. Yes is 2017 it starts for development boards like the Nvidia shield and for the like of the raspberry pi. Porting wine to ARM basically has nothing to-do with Apple most of the way.
Not exactly saw the light last year. Most windows applications people want to run as still 32 bit. So the break of 32 bit support forced work on to hangover for x86 platforms of course that work was helping out hangover in general.
Really no tip off here. Just alignment of events.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostAre you sure Rosetta can't run Wine? Oh wait it's 32-bit :<
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Originally posted by edwaleni View PostLooks like the people at Codeweavers saw the light last year (or got tipped off) when they decided to port WINE to ARM.
The fact that they added a load of previously iOS-specific libraries and new ones to make it almost trivial to port iOS apps to MacOS a year ago made it screamingly obvious this was coming pretty soon-ish. Even well before that it was plainly obvious when Apple kept massively over-investing in the stagnant ARM tablet market after most makers moved on to x86 tablets, creating their own silicon that performed on par or better than x86 parts meant for laptops.
Still, this should make things quite a bit more interesting in the desktop, laptop and server markets as there hasn't really been any real competition for x86 since PPC just fizzled out out with the G5 macs around 2005. Even before that it was a particularly dull race with only one semi-marginal vendor supporting PPC while everything else ran x86 and most of that from a single vendor. Probably won't be as interesting as the days of x86 vs PPC vs Alpha vs MIPS vs SPARC from the late 90s, but a damn sight more interesting than the current "x86 Vendor A" vs "x86 Vendor B" situation.
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