The work at the intersection of the latest Apple devices and the development of Kernel Linux, in favor of free distribution, was not easy. But this was two special weeks in particular for Hector Martin, the pioneer in the Asahi Linux project, which led to compensation for years that describes it as exhaustion, the user’s entitlement, and political battles within the Kernel Linux community about the rust symbol.
In a post on his website.He resigned as the leadership of the Asahi Linux projectMartin summarizes its history with devices penetration projects, including his time with Wii Homebrew (Team Twiizers/Fail0verlow), Which had a share of users who were desperate to play pirated games. Martin focused his focus, and when Apple revealed her silicone with the M1 series, Martin wrote, “I realized that she made Linux running my dreams project.” This time, there was no broken platform and a relatively open platform, if it was difficult.
Support and donations came quickly. The first two years witnessed a rapid progress of a platform designed “from scratch, with the support or documents of zero seller.” The source icon to Kernel Linux, via “every Linux sub -system”, was, “Incredible A frustrated experience (Martin assertion).
Then the users came demanding when Thunderbolt will appear, monitor USB-C support, M3/M4, and even check the CPU. The donations and pledges decreased slowly while the demands increased. “It seemed the more the things we have accomplished, and less support for us,” Martin writes.
Martin cits in personal complications, as well as pursuit and harassment, as the work slowed until 2024, while Vulkan drivers and simulations are still shipped. At the same time, problems related to pushing the rust code in the Linux nucleus were fermented. “The entire reason was our GPU driver managed to succeed at a time when it happened,” Martin wrote. Quoting from Nova driver for Nvidia GPUS For example, Martin writes that the most modern programming languages are more suitable for drivers writing more modern devices with more complexity and new challenges, which is not surprising. “