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I would love to have Sandstorm on my RasPi but they don't support ARM. It sounds like a great home intranet.

• ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  Just notes on this for the curious: 1. Sandstorm doesn't support ARM currently because Sandstorm apps run native Linux binaries, and every app would have to be compiled for each architecture. 2. I honestly think you'd be running pretty crippled trying to do Sandstorm on a RasPi. It's a bit smaller scale than Sandstorm seems targeted for. Each open Sandstorm grain commonly uses 100 MB of RAM or more (on top of the RAM used by Linux and the Sandstorm server itself, of course), so with just a couple of Sandstorm grains running simultaneously, you can max out a RasPi pretty quickly.
  • MustardTiger 10y ago
    >Sandstorm doesn't support ARM currently because Sandstorm apps run native Linux binaries, and every app would have to be compiled for each architecture. That's true of any linux distro providing binary packages. They all support arm anyways, it is trivially simple to compile packages. Even small projects like openbsd compile tens of thousands of packages for a dozen arches.
    • kentonv 10y ago
      Yes but distros accomplish that by being highly opinionated on the build process you use to build packages whereas Sandstorm tries to be unopinionated on this point. Sandstorm will support ARM someday but it's going to require a large investment in tooling in order to be painless for developers.
      • MustardTiger 10y ago
        >Yes but distros accomplish that by being highly opinionated on the build process you use to build packages whereas Sandstorm tries to be unopinionated on this point. How's that exactly? I looked it over and can't see any difference at all.