I’m still skeptical. The licensing model is certainly friendlier and I think that’s why more people are willing to give this a chance and put dev time into it. But the cost is still high and performance is trash.

I’m most interested in seeing what that team that splintered off intel to go all in on RISC-V come up with.

No, that would be manjaro.

The Qualcomm stuff is actually coming along, as is Apple. They’re on pace with pretty much any non-raspberry pi SBC.

u-boot loads off the SD card because there is nowhere else to put it on this board. I want to put alpine there too. Alpine and u-boot can be on the same card but alpine wont finish loading unless it is being loaded from the USB port.

I’m using the R4S, it’s a different model with a different SoC. I know there used to be a weird bug on this board regarding SD cards that was supposedly fixed in 2022 (https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2022/10/28/linux-nanopi-r4s/)

That’s why I’m running alpine. It runs in ram and only writes to the SD card when I run “lbu commit.”

As an experiment, I wrote u-boot to a different blank SD card and put the supposedly bad SD card with alpine on it into an USB card reader and connected that to the nanopi. Sure enough, the nanopi loaded u-boot on the sd card, then loaded alpine just fine off the USB card reader.

The card is fine. It just wont run alpine linux off the built in card reader.

I’m of the opinion that a full rewrite in rust will eventually happen, but they need to be cautious and not risk alienating developers ala windows mobile so right now it’s still done in pieces. I’m also aware that many of the devs who sharpened their teeth on the kernel C code like it as it is, resist all change, and this causes lots of arguments.

Looking at that link, I’m not liking the MPL.

Rewrite the entire kernel exclusively in rust!

-hehehe-

“I believe good things but don’t want to actually sacrifice anything or be responsible for any of my actions that my prevent good things from happening”

When testing for permissions, I still giggle over trying to execute “touch this” then being told “can’t touch this”

I use both of these systems daily. They have some issues but are just fine for me. Honestly, they are just opposite extremes and I respect that. They each chose a side.

Whereas windows makes me scream. It’s absolute horseshit that pretends to claim some middle ground that makes no one happy.

I see this going further underground as fascism takes over. The corporate influence was bad enough before but with the Nazis in coming to power again, many of us are going to have to dive underground.

Imagine such absurdity. The Internet. The land of “forbidden knowledge.”