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Apple made some changes specifically for Asahi Linux to make it more robust.

I believe it was Hector Martin who discussed it on Mastodon a while ago.

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Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578

Discussed there, but shame the original linked tweet is deleted

Would you happen to have a link to this? I would like to learn about this but unfortunately treehouse.systems doesn't seem to be very well indexed by search engines, and Mastodon's search is failing me.

Source? It's a welcome thing but very much not like Apple.

Apple has a long long history of supporting open source.

can you please tell us what have they done for open source except LLVM.

Probably took me less time to search “Apple open source” and click the first link than it did to type your question:

https://opensource.apple.com/

Basically nothing except swift and llvm.

They are able to rebrand other peoples stuff!

I mean, if you can’t read I could see how one might walk away with that impression.

My argument was apple is doing nothing much for open source, then you suddenly come with link that shows Apple has done nothing for open source compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta.

…compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta.

So you can read, you just moved the goalposts when you were shown to be mistaken.

mistaken? Looks like you can't comprehend goalposts with common sense. Apple isn't random acme company we are comparing here.

Swift, WebKit, Darwin/XNU, MLX, FoundationDB, Container, Pkl, libdispatch (GCD), CUPS, CareKit, ResearchKit, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Spark, Netty, Solr…

Sure, but other then language tools, databases, printing, container orchestration, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?

~85% of the things they mentioned were Mac-exclusive software, so that's more of a question for yourself than the greater FOSS community.

If you have the will, and the knowledge all of those tools can be used to your advantage but no one has for the most part they want someone else to do it for them for free.

If you see google and microsoft contribution to OSS, apple contribution to OSS is basically nothing.

LLVM / Swift / Webkit & XNU (I don’t really know of anything using Xnu up stream but the others are large open source projects?)

Clang, OpenCL, MLX

Don't they ship a propetietary clang variant with weirdass version numbers? That was true at least at some point. Fortunately most Mac users on my experiments have given up attempting to compile any code in their Macs after SIP etc made it too annoying so rarely have to support them anymore.

> "What has Apple ever done for Open Source?"

> proceeds to name three of the worst-managed projects in the history of FOSS software

and CUPS

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