%title: Debian on Apple M1 and M2 - mdp presentation %author: Alex Myczko tar@debian.org %date: 2024-05-18

-> Debian on Apple M1 and M2 <-

I will go through these steps with you:

Overview, what is Asahi Linux? Statistics History Why no M3 support? Magic Surprise Questions?

-> Overview, what is Asahi Linux? <-

NeXT.com (Apple) did bring out arm64 (some call it aarch64) SOC computers in 2020.

Originally it was an Arch Linux distribution, but the rest did not sleep, a few months ago they switched to Fedora.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/M1

Someone created a Debian installer, then came the packages, and #debian-bananas as well as http://bananas.debian.net

Eight persons work on Asahi Linux. They have got IRC and a web page, sources can be found on https://github.com

Future https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/112277289414246878

-> Statistics <-

An excerpt 490 GB (sid), 31k source packages, 2129 million lines of source code. Nearly 23 million source files.

42 % ANSI C 26 % C++ 5 % Java 3.9 % Shell 4.7 % Python 19.3 % not so important languages More than 6000 people worked on it, I do since 2001. It's currently about 1.2k people working on it. Active bugs 180k, Archived 840k. The bug tracking BTS is open (we have a mirror). Debian also rebuilds its archive with clang regularly https://clang.debian.net/