> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:06 AM Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> > wrote: > >> [...] >> Apple’s M1 are (probably) great - but only if you want to run macOS on >> it. >> Anything else and the compromises will likely be even more severe than >> those that had to be made in the earliest days of running Linux on a >> laptop. >> [...] > > > Did you try it or is this just a guess? I use Ubuntu in a VM on the M1. > As I mentioned there are currently some restrictions but the direction > already looks quite promising. At least far away from any earliest > days ... > Most likely you're running an Ubuntu arch build then? The IP wanted "support IA64 based OS's and it *needs* to be an exact (VM) copy of production" which most likely means "x86_64" code (not really IA64 which is Itanium, isn't it?). Simon