OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

The work of the Asahi team is incredible, and so much fun to watch unfold.

I wander if now that you can get a rack mount Mac Pro with Apple Silicon (launched yesterday, the second coming of XServe), running server workloads on them with Asahi Linux becomes a viable route for some people?

This is what they have support for at the moment:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-d...

Maybe not quite possible to do today but if Asahi keeps up the pace they've made so far I bet it will be soon.

It helps that Apple has popular hardware so there's a good bit of people out there interested in developing support for Apple processors.

If you're doing on-the-road visuals and you want a chunky realtime rackmount to render with, $7k for an M2 Ultra might look like a steal. For hosting purposes and parallel workloads though, there are many other options at much better price/performance points in the same market. If you're not leveraging Apple software and you pay for an Apple Silicon server, you're kinda wasting money that could have gone towards an Ampere or Grace instance instead.

FYI it's silicon, not silicone. Silicone is a type of rubber.

The curse of Dyslexia and crap Apple spell check.