

Update, 3/22/22: The porting project Asahi Linux has published its first alpha release, complete with a usable desktop environment. If you can’t wait any longer, you can run Linux right now in a virtual machine. I can tell you it works really well, it's easy to setup and very stable. You Can’t Run Linux Natively on Apple Silicon (Yet) Native Linux support for Apple Silicon chips is coming. I'm using it since I realise I didn't have to pay for having a good virtualization software on Mac OS X. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
