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?
Nobody has been able to answer this question yet. > Am 20.06.2025 um 08:48 schrieb NoisyCoil <noisyc...@disroot.org>: > > Hi all! > > 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!
