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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is RISC-V hardware viable now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ryuko@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1254389

I don't think I'll be able to replace my daily driver computer yet, but does anyone have any regular experience with RISC-V computers and where they're at right now? I'm considering buying some RISC-V boards from Pine64 just to try it out.

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on what you expect to do with it. A bit of faffing around with the Gentoo repository tells me that they've convinced KDE5, Firefox, Libreoffice, GIMP, and a few other useful pieces of software to build, but not Chromium, Thunderbird, etc. So maybe somewhere between a Pi and a Chromebook, in terms of usefulness?