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Holy cow! Ubuntu really takes their hardware gatekeeping seriously. Of course we'll hear from the apologists about how much extra work supporting "low end" sys
by johnklos 1y ago
Holy cow! Ubuntu really takes their hardware gatekeeping seriously.
Of course we'll hear from the apologists about how much extra work supporting "low end" systems is - think of the developers! think of Ubuntu's bottom line!
> Admittedly there is one big rub: the range of RISC-V devices with RVA23 support is, at the time or writing this, near non-existent.
They couldn't even wait for hardware to be available before doing this? So basically Ubuntu 25.10 only runs on hardware that doesn't yet exist. Nice.
> Focusing future Ubuntu support to devices that have more capable RISC-V profile sets will further position the distro as the de-facto OS on the platform.
...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu.
- snvzz 1y ago>...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu. Everyone now is nobody tomorrow. Right now, the few RISC-V boards are in the hands of developers and enthusiasts. In the future, RISC-V will continue to grow, into mass-market. Ubuntu recognizes the importance of being able to fully take advantage of RVA23, a fully capable ISA comparable to x86-64v4 and ARMv9.
- johnklos 1y agoSalespeak ;)