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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, good news since it means more work on architectures people use. On the other hand, this means there is really

by uluyol 9y ago

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, good news since it means more work on architectures people use. On the other hand, this means there is really just _one_ architecture which usually hurts portability, and that matters if arch linux ever decides to support arm or something.

zdkl 9y ago
https://archlinuxarm.org/ https://archlinuxarm.org/
skykooler 9y ago
I've had Arch Linux ARM on an N900 for the past 5 years.
- craftyguy 9y ago
  So thinks a bit offtopic,but I'm working on running Alpine Linux on the N900. What did you do about those damn powervr SGX blobs? What GUI do you run on your N900 (xfce or ??)
  - skykooler 9y ago
    I used a package with N900 firmware blobs. I didn't build it, so I'm not sure how they were set up. More info here: https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81892 https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81892 As for GUI, I used enlightenment, which worked decently well on a small screen.
  - majewsky 9y ago
    Isn't that what www.postmarketos.org is doing?
    - craftyguy 9y ago
      Yes, I actively contribute to that project.
      - majewsky 9y ago
        OK great. I was just afraid you were not aware of that effort and thus duplicating it.
detuur 9y ago
Arch on ARM works really well though. Has been my daily driver on Raspberry Pi for a couple of years now.
- turblety 9y ago
  ArchLinux really is great for ARM, and hobby projects in general. I've struggled to get even Debian running on my Chromebooks multiple times, but the first time I tried Arch it just worked straight out of the box.