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Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’ (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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You will own nothing and be happy about it.

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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

You can run Linux just fine on apple SOCs, multiple independent projects managed to run Linux on IPhones before. You do have to rewrite the device tree and all drivers, but that's the case for all new hardware. People have done it before for the ARM chips in the apple silicons. (up to the M2 series at least)

The only real question is if the bootloader is unlockable or if the neo needs to be jailbroken like its the case with most iphones.

Its definetly not a good choice for Linux and it will take a few years even with the best case scenario, but its possible nonetheless.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I am aware of Asahi Linux (M1&M2). I am not aware of the other projects. Can you provide some links to those that provide a functional and usable OS for iPhone hardware. Which SOCs are they for?

    The difference to other hardware, as far as I understand is that Apple offers very little documentation to third parties. Which is the reason why Asahi Linux is still stuck on M2 when there is already the M5 out. If it were so trivial, why don't we have Asahi Linux for at least M3? It has been around for 3 years already.

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