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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Asahi Linux?

They named a distro after a beer brand?

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... They named Macs after a beer brand?

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

They named an apple after a beer brand?

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing 💖

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Lina asahi is steamer who reverse engineering apple m1 chip for Linux, so asahi linux was distro for apple m1 at first