Omarchy Mac and Aurora: one Apple Silicon kernel for M1, M2, M3 and MacBook Neo after five days of work
The Omarchy M Team’s latest update says the Aurora kernel now runs as a single build on every Apple Silicon Mac, with M3 Pro displays, Thunderbolt docks, more Touch ID support and a preview install script.
The Omarchy Mac effort is moving fast. In an update posted on X on October 7, 2026, Chris Kearney of the Omarchy M Team summed up five days of work, from October 1 to 6, on Aurora, the Linux kernel for Apple Silicon that Omarchy Mac runs on.
The numbers in the post: 27 releases (19 of them stable), 553 commits and 31 pull requests (17 merged) across the iconidentify/aurora-linux and aurora-silicon/linux repositories, with 24 people involved. Kearney credits AI and teamwork between the Omarchy M Team and the wider Omarchy Mac community for the pace.
The headline change is that there is now one kernel for every Apple Silicon Mac: M1, M2, M3 and the MacBook Neo all run the same build, and a single m1n1 boot loader covers every Mac as well.
M3 support has landed, starting with the built-in display and GPU on the M3 Pro. Release 12.0 adds M3 Pro external displays, USB-C on all three ports plus HDMI at 4K, and three screens at once. An M3 Air bring-up is underway with remote testers.
Older machines get attention too. Thunderbolt docks now work on M1 and M2 Pro and Max, with two monitors per dock and Studio Display brightness control. Touch ID works on more M1 and M2 Macs, with fixes for reset and enrolment. The Neural Engine is enabled on the M1 Max and M2 Max, the MacBook Neo gets Wi-Fi, and video decode is now on by default.
The post thanks a long list of GitHub contributors and bug reporters, and notes that all of it is built on top of Asahi Linux.
For those who want to try it now, the post shares a one-line install script for the kernel, hosted on the iconidentify/aurora-linux repository. It is described as a preview of the official release, and testers who hit problems are asked to submit a pull request. As with any preview kernel, expect rough edges and keep a backup.
