Asahi Linux Switches To A Real Free Software License
Recently Asahi Linux decided to drop the MIT license to switch over to GPLv2 or later so let's talk about what this means and why they did so.
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"First We Take Manhattan": DHH on Omarchy, AI, Asahi and Winning the Linux Desktop
Asahi’s licence change? Doesn’t matter. Vibe coded plugins? A feature. Critics? Their loss. DHH holds nothing back on Omarchy, AI and the future of the Linux desktop.
Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming
Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code they have upstreamed to the mainline kernel as well as other efforts …
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Asahi Linux Drops MIT and Goes Full GPL After AI Tools Were Used to Steal Unreleased Code
Every Asahi Linux repository is moving to GPL v2 or later, after bad actors lifted unreleased code and ran it through LLMs to hide where it came from.
Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding
Seeing a Vulkan API driver pull request this morning for introducing a new 'Borealis' driver ID caught me by surprise as it was the first time I was hearing of such a driver
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