{"id":616683,"date":"2026-09-06T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616683\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:02:13","slug":"asahi-linux-rolls-out-support-for-m3-apple-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616683\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Linux rolls out support for M3 Apple Silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Asahi Linux project now officially supports Macs<\/a> with an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, bringing the operating system to more Apple Silicon desktops. <\/p>\n

In late August<\/a>, a blog post for the Asahi Linux project, which intends to bring Linux to Apple Silicon<\/a> and run natively on Apple’s ARM chips, said M3<\/a> support was on the way. While it said that it was a matter of weeks, it seems to have arrived in a much quicker timeframe. <\/p>\n

A blog post on September 6<\/a> declares support for Macs using an M3-series SoC. This now extends support beyond the previous M1<\/a> and M2<\/a> generations of Apple Silicon. <\/p>\n

It’s not full support for M3, however. It’s warned that M3 Ultra is not yet supported by the operating system, leaving out some Mac Studio<\/a> users from the Linux party. <\/p>\n

Almost complete<\/p>\n

Almost everything supported in the M1 and M2 releases now “just works” on M3, the developers claim. That includes webcam support, the internal microphones, USB up to the USB 3 10Gb\/s limit, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and hardware-accelerated video decoding support. <\/p>\n

When it comes to major exceptions, the short list includes full DCP support and the GPU. That said, updates to those are expected to arrive within the next few months. <\/p>\n

Sleep is also not functional in the release, due to limitations with the firmware-provided framebuffer. This should be addressed once full DCP support is enabled. <\/p>\n

DCP support will also help with video. Currently, the HDMI port on equipped MacBooks is disabled until that support arrives. <\/p>\n

While M3 support is now here, the project still has more work to undertake. Development is ongoing to support M4<\/a> and M5 chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Asahi Linux project now officially supports Macs with an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-616683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}