Linux now runs on Apple's M1 Macs. Virtualization company Corellium, which is currently being sued by Apple, has ported the open-source operating system to Apple Silicon Macs.

Corellium's business is virtualization. It lets you run iOS, Android, and Linux virtualization on ARM processors, the kind of processors used in Apple Silicon. So it's no surprise that it's managed to port Linux to M1 Macs so quickly. But what does Linux on Mac mean for you?

“When Apple decided to allow custom kernels to be installed on Macs with M1 processors, we wanted to build another Linux port to further our understanding of the hardware platform,” Corellium said in a blog post on its website.

“While we were modeling the processor for our security research product, we were working on the Linux port in parallel.”