Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS

Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wantign to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain. An updated form of those patches were posted today for review...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Building-Linux-Kernel-macOS-Hos

[sophisticles]

I have to day that desktop looks so beautiful, really wish someone would make an exact clone of it for Linux use.

[gnarlin]

Spelling error: wantign

[kpedersen]

I have to day that desktop looks so beautiful, really wish someone would make an exact clone of it for Linux use.

Really?

IMO, it reached the pinnacle around 10.5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard#/media/File:Leopard_Desktop.png

Plus, these days it is buggy, when you drag and drop a mounted device from the desktop to the trash, it used to change the name to "Eject". It now fails to do that even though the icon still correctly changes.

[amxfonseca]

This can be useful when I want to try mainline kernels on some cheap ARM boards. Currently I build the kernel within a docker container.

[Daktyl198]

Plus, these days it is buggy, when you drag and drop a mounted device from the desktop to the trash, it used to change the name to "Eject". It now fails to do that even though the icon still correctly changes.

Why would you want it to change the name of the device to a generic word when you unmount it? What if you want to mount that device again in the future? How are you supposed to know which is which if you just have 3 devices named "eject" on your desktop all with the same icon?

[Daktyl198]

I have to day that desktop looks so beautiful, really wish someone would make an exact clone of it for Linux use.

Cosmic is probably as close as it gets. It even mimics the macOS behavior of minimizing non-pinned applications to a special place on the right side of the dock.

Of course, the beauty of macOS's looks is more in the small theme details rather than features like that... and Linux just doesn't really draw in good graphic designers lol.

[kpedersen]

Why would you want it to change the name of the device to a generic word when you unmount it? What if you want to mount that device again in the future? How are you supposed to know which is which if you just have 3 devices named "eject" on your desktop all with the same icon?

Lol, no. Not changing the name of the device itself. Just the "Eject" label which currently remains "Trash". This got broken in Ventura I believe.

[Daktyl198]

Lol, no. Not changing the name of the device itself. Just the "Eject" label which currently remains "Trash". This got broken in Ventura I believe.

Ohhh, not the label of the drive, changing the label of the trash icon on hover. That makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

[Jumbotron]

By far the most MacOS like desktop and experience on Linux is elementaryOS. The design language and theming is spot on. Even more than COSMIC. Unfortunately I’ve always found too many paper cuts and their curated App Center is too narrow. They need to abandoned that and just use an “elementaryOS-isified” Gnome Software Center and let the chips fall where they may theme wise if I use something outside the elementaryOS design language. That said my last run with elementaryOS was version 5.something. They’re up to 7.1 and moving to 8 sometime. Maybe it’s time to check them out again. It is a lovely desktop with lovely smooth animations along with the the more 3D dock and shelf of older versions of MacOS.

https://elementary.io/