Are we (linux) ready for arm devices like snapdragon elite X? Asahi runs on mac os with arm chips and the software somehow runs better than macos itself?! Is the softwares packaged for arm linux different? Is there much softwares available for the arm platform like softwares available for the intel/amd chipsets?
After all are you optimistic about linux and arm?
Linux has been ready for ARM for a long time, Android is linux and have been running for a long time. Also see the Raspberry Pi and PiOS, based on Debian.
I run a Pi and there are boat loads of things ARM ready
Android is not linux ootb But pi is Thanks i didn’t thought about it ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
Looks like the Google bots are dominant here also … pushing the android abomination.
Android runs on the Linux kernel, so it’s Linux. You could consider it a distribution with almost none of the normal packages a standard Linux distribution would include, but it’s still Linux at the core.
It’s been sufficiently transformed that the creator of the first half of GNU/Linux doesn’t think it’s Linux and I find his arguments convincing. Just like Linux isn’t in the Unix family Android is something different. Further reading: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman
Stallman has absolutely no say about what makes Linux. His tools, though important to the free software movement, are not necessary to create a Linux distribution.
There is NO GNU/Linux. Stallman doesn’t get to name or claim ownership of someone else’s baby. It’s Linux, so named by its creator.
It may not be “GNU/Linux” (whatever that stupid name means) but it’s still Linux. If it uses the Linux kernel, then it’s Linux, simple as. No one said it has to be *nix to be considered Linux. And even then Android is *nix. You can actually run many Linux programs if you have root access or by using Termux. If Android isn’t Linux to you, Alpine Linux shouldn’t be either.
The kernel used by Android is Linux, just like the kernel used by PiOS.
You don’t run application softwares on top of kernel. The kernel itself is not an operating system.
It needs certain libraries. I’m talking about software availability on arm linux
I have a couple RPis and there is plenty of software that runs on them.