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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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Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

no love for RISC-V?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Until risc-v is at least as performant as top of the line 2 year old hardware it isn’t going to be of interest to most end users. Right now it is mostly hobbyist hardware.

I also think a lot of trust if being put into it that is going to be misplaced. Just because the ISA is open doesn’t mean anything about the developed hardware.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

RISC-V is currently already being used in MCUs such as the popular ESP32 line. So I'd say it's looking pretty good for RISC-V. Instruction sets don't really matter in the end though, it's just licensing for the producer to deal with. It's not like you'll be able to make a CPU or even something on the level of old 8-bit MCUs at home any time soon and RISC-V IC designs are typically proprietary too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same goes for RV, OpenRISC, MIPS and other architectures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is MIPS still around? I know it was used a lot in embedded stuff but last I heard they were shutting down development of new MIPS chips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Baikal T comes to mind.