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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 02:20:21 JST nixCraft 🐧

   World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu #linux https://canonical.com/blog/worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-massive-upgrade-and-equips-with-ubuntu

   • popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 02:23:21 JST popey

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     @nixCraft It'll be interesting to see what works and what doesn't on this machine. A real opportunity for enthusiasts to help test, file issues and provide help in porting open source software to a newer architecture. This seems like a great project. I hope it's reasonably priced, and decent availability.

   • DaleOh (daleoh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 04:39:03 JST DaleOh

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     @nixCraft I've been in IT since the early 1980s. I've built my own workstations. I've managed secure networks. I've run some flavor of Linux since 2001. But I could not read that mishmash of alphabet soup. I didn't recognize any of the initialisms. Perhaps it's all bullshit and they want you to be impressed rather than informed? I was neither.

   • Courtney Mertz (courtneyamitie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 09:32:47 JST Courtney Mertz

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     It think it's really cool that the first ever RISC-V Laptop is coming with a Linux install!

   • Jonathan M. (hstone32@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 10:56:12 JST Jonathan M.

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     @nixCraft aside from being open source, what are the advantages of RISC-V architecture? Why would it be more desirable than amd64 or ARM?