Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project
Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hector-Martin-Resigns-Asahi
@phoronix
Nothing of value was lost, my stance on Asahi Linux remains the same: https://m0xEE.Net/gemlog/posts/2024-09-05-asahi-linux-is-pointless.gmi
It's a waste of effort that'd better be used elsewhere, nowadays we have plenty of hardware that's way more open than that of Apple, and hardware based on reverse-engineering effort would always remain far from perfect.
@bria
And? I'm not chasing the members of Asahi project around the Internet telling them what to do, I'm expressing my
own opinion on my own gemlog.
There is nothing wrong with 2000 — or any number of words for that matter when I'm elaborating on the opinion I have expressed on Fedi to the one who was never involved with Asahi project.
You are confusing the right to have an opinion with imposing said opinion on others 🤷
@m0xee
You're posting on a news to a project to say "I decide that this project is a bad project and everyone that works on it lose their times and act against (true or useful) opensource". That in substance what I understood of your blog and post.
So perhaps you doesn't want to chase the membres, but from my point of view it's pretty close.
In addition, I always have difficulty with peoples which decide for other or for "the open-source" what is good or bad.
I'm an adept of diversity, and I love when something like doing something that i would not do, because it can find things I would never have tought.
@bria
This news feed is unrelated to them and I'm not attempting to discourage them — neither am I in position to prevent them from their reverse-engineering effort — that is isn't the problem IMO. Their promise that those who buy ARM-based Macs today will get a well-supported machine in the future is! Based on my experience with Apple, reverse engineered technology and support for Linux on non-open hardware, I think this promise is unlikely to get delivered on.
@phoronix
@bria
Those who fall for this implied promise are (in broader sense) the target audience of my post, not Asahi! I'd rather see people helping RISC-V succeed or support open ARM-based computers such as MNT Reform — because I think we would all benefit more from that than from supporting highly-customised, closed and poorly serviceable hardware that are ARM-based Macs.
Again, I might be wrong and I'd be willing to admit it, but the linked news article confirms…
@phoronix
@bria
…one of the points from my post dated *last September* : the novelty and excitement from the initial success fades and at the same time the visible progress stalls — it doesn't take hating them to see it, it's just what is likely to happen to such an ambitious reverse-engineering effort without proper support from the hardware maker.
The worst thing you can accuse me of is this "told you so" — but I assure you there are plenty of things worse than that.
@phoronix