Re: Debian on Apple M1/M2: status and call for testers
Hi all!
At the moment the ‘normal’ version - Debian stable aarch64 is installed as a VM in UTM (QEMU) on my M1 MacMini.
Would the Debian Linux asahi variant from Bananas Team also have advantages in a VM? If ‘yes’, what would be improved?
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> Am 20.06.2025 um 08:48 schrieb NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org>:
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> Hi all!
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> This email is a call for testers for Debian on Apple machines with M1/M2 chips. The Bananas Team [1] has set up an installer at [2] with images for GNOME, KDE and console installations. While we'd like to build an actual Debian installer sooner or later (we may need a heads-up from the Debian Images team for that), at this time we only provide an asahi-type installer, which installs both the "bootloader" and the OS partitions to disk from the network (as opposed to only installing the bootloader and then letting you install Debian using a d-i USB stick). We haven't forked Trixie from Testing yet, so what you'll get is Debian Testing quite deep into the freeze. For device support, please check [3]. Ping us on IRC/Matrix at #debian-bananas if you're interested/willing to help!
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