Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register
AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop
Open source people "cheering" for Broadcom and Qualcomm based chips? I'm horribly confused as to when the open source types decided they liked greedy, horrible, shitty companies?
I don't want arm or risc v to replace x86 unless we still get to have motherboards with upgradable cpu sockets. And ram slots. And gpu compatible pcie slots. None of the current players are going to give us anything like that.
I'd be happy if they even sold hobbiests loose chips so we could figure it out ourself though. The arm and risc microprocessors on mouser are like the bottom of the barrel leftovers after the corpos have had their pick.
There's stuff for sale like that on the ARM side, but you'll pay out the nose for it, as it's all enterprise-y server-y stuff. For example, you can buy Ampere chips and boards that have ram slots and pci-e slots and all that jazz, but it costs way too much to make any sort of sense at the consumer level.
But yeah, on the consumer side we're never going to get modifiable and upgradable systems from the current crop of SOC vendors, and, worse, the x86 duopoly looks to want to head down the integrated RAM and non-upgradable path too :(
Since forever. Go to any "open source" conference and you might as well be sitting in a Mac conference.
ARM will replace x86 and RISC V will move into ARM's old slot.
RISC V is what you’re looking for
It's not even the first time 😭
... when it is actually usable one day.
The big problem of RISC-V is the fragmentation of the market, and it is not even a big market to start with.
I love seeing ARM wrestling