Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.
flathub.org/en/year-in-review/…
For the first time we now also offer ARM64 builds for devices that boot with UEFI. This means you'll be able to run OS 8.1 on M-series Apple Silicon and devices where you can load UEFI-supporting firmware like Raspberry Pi. This version of Linux also supports certain Qualcomm and Rockchip processors, for example
My saga to find an #ARM #SBC that has #AES acceleration hits some roadbumps, because it seems all the newer ARM boards require a custom vendor OS with, usually, an ancient kernel. Sigh.
Blog post: "ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V)" changelog.complete.org/archive…
🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!
We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.
This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!
notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22…
#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer
TUXEDO tease an ARM Snapdragon X Elite Linux notebook is coming gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/tuxe…
TUXEDO Computers have teased that they're working on an ARM notebook with a Snapdragon X Elite SoC from Qualcomm.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
FreeBSD Foundation and Digital Security by Design (DSbD)
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❝… CHERI and CheriBSD, developed to revolutionize hardware-based protection against memory safety vulnerabilities, were developed by a collaboration from researchers from the University of Cambridge, alongside corporate partners such as Google, Microsoft, Arm, and SRI International, and with support from the UK government. …❞
Winning Projects Highlight CheriBSD's Role in Advancing Digital Security...FreeBSD Foundation
Aha, and now an error message:
“The following error occured while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable…:
Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or a firmware bug.”
Fun times.
Someone get the folks at Fedora a PinebookPro.
CC @Pine64
Thank you to Arm for joining us as a #GUADEC2022 Bronze sponsor!
It's not too late to sponsor. If you or your company are interested in supporting #GUADEC find more info here: events.gnome.org/event/77/page…
#SupportOpenSource #EventSponsor #GNOME #arm
The open source Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture with fully-conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali-G57, a Valhall GPU.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
RT @codingfield@twitter.com
Weekend experiment : run a @matrixdotorg@twitter.com #Synapse server on the @thepine64@twitter.com #Quartz64 #ARM SBC!
Meet me @jf002@twitter.com:quartz64.codingfield.com !
🐦🔗: twitter.com/codingfield/status…
