Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1

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Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Booting from USB a full Ubuntu desktop (rpi). Network works via a USB c dongle. Update includes support for USB, I2C, DART. We will push changes to our GitHub and a tutorial later today. Thanks to the
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More weekly details:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/21/how-linux-was-ported-to-the-apple-silicon-m1-mac-mini

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I hope that “running Linux in an M1 Mac on metal” (as mentioned in the article in a subsequent discussion on whether it’s not just as useful to install Linux on an M1 compatible VM) means the executable files are in the ELF binary format that is used in Linux. So if one, for example, compiles a source code and sends the executable to someone that has Linux in the PC, it will run in that machine just as well as it does in one’s own.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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