Solus ARM and Server

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I am talking about future, imagine that Solus became one of the most used distros and the Solus team increase and begin to receive revenue, would you consider this editions for the future?

Harvey

I don't think the "we're not a server OS" stance has anything to do with projects size / funding. Its just not its focus, better options exist for that purpose and those will never be a rolling release.

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Harvey And what about ARM support for the pinebook or raspberry pie for example?

Harvey

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To be clear this is all just my opinion, I am not a Solus team member.

My understanding for ARM is that it is not standardised to the point you can simply support booting on all ARM devices. In which case I highly doubt they would waste their resources on such a small portion of the market. But who knows what the future holds, I think everyone is excited about ARM's potential.

I have a RPi3 and love it. But I would not put that in the same category as Solus's target market at this stage.

Justin

Harvey Now that ARM 64 bit in it's slowly becoming more of a standard I think.

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I didn't know that, I posted this because I am really excited about the Pinetab and I would buy it if it support Solus in the future

kyrios

Argh.. Can't edit the tags from my mobile

DataDrake

Justin that doesn't change the fact that most ARM systems still require u-boot with a custom device-tree in order to provide the kernel with enough information to boot. Until ARM has its own well-established implementation of UEFI or similar, things will remain stupidly difficult to maintain.

Justin

There's certainly people working on it though https://rpi4-uefi.dev