Introducing Fedora Asahi Remix 39
Back in August, we announced that Fedora Linux would soon be available on Apple Silicon Macs. We unveiled the Fedora Asahi Remix at Flock. This is a distribution developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project.
Today we are happy to announce that Fedora Asahi Remix 39 is now generally available! Based on Fedora Linux 39, the Remix provides a polished experience on Apple Silicon Macs with extensive platform and device support. All MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, Mac Studio and iMac systems with M1 and M2 chips are supported. See the feature matrix on the Asahi Linux website for specifics about individual systems.
Fedora Asahi Remix offers KDE Plasma as our flagship desktop experience, which also features a custom Calamares-based initial setup wizard. A GNOME variant is also available, with both desktop variants matching what Fedora Linux offers. Both KDE and GNOME use Wayland out of the box, leveraging XWayland to support legacy X11 apps.
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Fedora Asahi Remix is now available, bringing Fedora Linux to Apple Silicon Macs
The developers behind Asahi Linux have been working to bring GNU/Linux Macs with Apple Silicon for about as long as Apple has been selling them. While early builds of their Linux for Mac software were based on Arch Linux ARM, this summer the Asahi team announced a new flagship operating system that would instead be based on Fedora.
It’s taken a little longer than expected, but Fedora Asahi Remix is now available.
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Linux Gets Even Better on Modern Macs With Fedora Asahi Remix
The Asahi Linux project has been hard at work over the past few years, building a usable desktop Linux experience for Mac computers with Apple Silicon (M1, M2, etc.) chipsets. Fedora Asahi Remix is now available, and it's the best option yet for running native Linux on modern Macs.
The Asahi Linux team has worked with the Fedora project to release Fedora Asahi Remix, a desktop Linux distribution built specifically for Macs using M1 and M2 chips—older Intel-based Macs can use any Linux distribution built for 64-bit x86 computers. Fedora Asahi Remix is intended to be more reliable and feature-complete than the older Arch Linux-based builds of Asahi Linux.
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Game-Changer for Mac Users: Fedora Asahi Remix Released
In an exciting announcement, after nearly two years of development for Apple Silicon Mac, just in time for Christmas presents, the Asahi Project has unveiled the first stable Fedora Asahi Remix release, a cutting-edge Fedora-based Linux distribution specifically tailored for Apple’s M1 and M2 series devices.
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Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Released for a Polished Linux Experience on Apple Silicon Macs
This year just keeps on giving, in the form of new distro releases, I mean.
Earlier this year, Asahi Linux and Fedora teamed up to bring the complete Linux experience to Apple Silicon. We hadn't heard much from them since the announcement; until now, that is.
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Fedora Asahi Released for Macs with Apple Silicon
Good news for those with devices using Apple M1- or M2-series processors who want to install Linux. The Asahi team has released the Fedora Asahi Remix.
This remix is based on Fedora 39 and defaults to the KDE Plasma desktop (although you can opt for GNOME if you prefer).
Both desktop environments use Wayland but also support X11 by way of XWayland. This remix ships with non-conformant OpenGL 3.3, which includes GPU-accelerated geometry shaders and the world's first certified conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 specific for Apple Silicon.
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Fedora Asahi Linux Remix frees Apple silicon Macs from Apple's walled garden with full release
After working long and hard, poking and prodding at the Apple silicon ARM hardware, the developers of the Asahi Linux project have announced the official release of the flagship Fedora Asahi Remix, which supports MacBooks and Apple computers.
Fedora Asahi Remix ships with KDE Plasma by default — although GNOME 45 is also available — offering a highly customisable desktop experience. It also adds support for OpenGL 3.3, 4.x, and Vulkan. Fedora Asahi Remix is 100% Wayland-based, with X11 apps handled by Xwayland. Wayland enables Asahi to implement features like VRR and will help bring an HDR desktop experience further down the line.
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Apple Silicon Mac GNU/Linux OS Fedora Asahi Remix now available
The world of open-source computing has this week seen the launch of Fedora Asahi Remix, a Linux-based operating system specifically designed for Macs equipped with Fashion Company Apple Silicon. This groundbreaking development is a result of a multi-year collaboration between the Asahi GNU/Linux project and the Fedora Project, two significant players in the open-source community.
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Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs
Have one of those fancy Apple Silicon Macs? Want to pop Linux on it? Check out Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the newly released Asahi Linux flagship distribution.
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Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon
The Asahi Linux team has released the first version of its Fedora 39 remix for Apple Silicon Macs – at least the first couple of generations.
The team announced the release on Mastodon. Asahi's Hector Martin gave a talk at the recent Ubuntu Summit, underlining that Asahi is not only an edition of Fedora – there are Asahi versions of Ubuntu, Debian, and various other distros too.
That said, some months ago the project's leader announced that Fedora was its flagship, and the first fruit of the partnership's efforts is now here. One intrepid Reg correspondent put the original Arch Linux-based version to the test nearly two years ago, and it worked.
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Fedora Linux available for all Apple Silicon Macs but one
We’ve seen Linux running on Apple Silicon Macs before, but this week marks the first time you can run Fedora Linux on M1 and M2 Macs.
This is a collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project, and marks a key milestone in a project which kicked off back in 2021 …
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If you’re thinking there’s one Apple Silicon Mac missing from that line-up, you’d be right: It doesn’t yet run on the current Mac Pro. For that, you’ll need to wait for the Fedora Linux 40 release, which is also expected to enable full Apple M1/M2 graphics support.
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