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> actually useful Except it's a custom ISA (fork of MIPS). It could be fine for Chromebook-like use cases (basically web browser machine), but not really for a

> actually useful Except it's a custom ISA (fork of MIPS). It could be fine for Chromebook-like use cases (basically web browser machine), but not really for anything more serious ...

gbin 3y ago
I guess you mean on the desktop? If this thing runs linux, it is as serious as everything that can run Linux.
- Rediscover 3y ago
  OpenBSD has a history of supporting the Loongson arch. https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html
- The_Colonel 3y ago
  Only some Chinese distros support it. For a lot of serious things, you will need to have binary support - commercial software, docker etc.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
    That's why they have: LoongBT, faster x86 and ARM binary translation, 213 instructions