Gravity Linux, a new Fedora remix forked from Asahi Linux, has released an early developer alpha that boots an accelerated desktop on the M4 Mac mini. The build includes GPU acceleration with OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenGL 3.3, but it is not ready for daily use: HDMI output works, while USB-C displays, USB4, Thunderbolt, and suspend do not, and power management is incomplete.
The fork exists because of a policy dispute over LLM use. Asahi broadly forbids generative AI for material contributions, while Gravity permits it under a clean-room policy designed to manage legal risk. Project lead Cody Ho, who previously worked at Apple and OpenAI, has described using LLM loops that ran with minimal human oversight to reverse-engineer Apple's hardware; he and co-developer Niklas Sheth built an M4 GPU driver in about a month. For the GPU work, they say they relied on hardware traces, live probing, and self-written shaders rather than inspecting Apple binaries, while still building on Asahi's earlier M1/M2 work and userspace API.
Gravity's alpha puts it ahead of Asahi in one narrow sense: Asahi has only preliminary M3 support without graphics acceleration, while Gravity is already on the M4. But the comparison is not exact, since Asahi is a longer-established project covering a much broader range of hardware. Asahi has also lost several prominent contributors since 2025, including project lead Hector Martin, GPU effort leader Asahi Lina, and GPU driver lead Alyssa Rosenzweig.
The project is best read as a demonstration of AI-assisted reverse engineering rather than proof that Asahi's policy was the bottleneck. Gravity's code still needs extensive testing, human review, and refactoring before it can be upstreamed, and its kernel driver may have to wait for Asahi's M1/M2 driver to land first.