Parabola’s future on amd64, arm64, arm832, armel, armhf, armv6 with i686 drop?
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Just having looked for ArchLinuxARM and ArchStrike projects, they have good support on arm64, arm832 (32-bit armv8), armel, armhf, armv6 arches, but Parabola just has armhf supported. I’m just an amd64 user but I think I still need to be considerate for Chromebooks and single boards that are using ARM processors.
In ‘‘Trisquel users’’ zone I remember I’ve said there I want Parabola to add arm64, arm832, armel, armv6 ‘‘Tiers’’ and drop i686 (I strongly prefer ARM to i686) to change to amd64, arm64, arm832, armel, armhf, armv6. Which the thread starter also asks for Trisquel on arches other than amd64 or i386 (although Parabola is rolling, Trisquel is LTS, totally opposed release model).
i dont like intel but i dont know of a single fully-free arm chip and it seems to complicate a lot without promising freedom. please, if im being unfair to arm be patient. to me it looks a lot like moving sideways rather than up. when i talked about cpus with alex oliva 6 years ago, we agreed that intel was bad and he didnt seem to think arm was a lot better. i dont mean to put words in his mouth. he recommended i get a lemote-- thats what i did.
but i deal mostly in refurbishing ewaste. im good at it. whenever it think ive moved to 64 bit, i find another useful 32 bit machine. thus i focus pretty exclusively on distros that have that choice.
how many arm-based machines lack a locked-down bootloader? i dont mean for machines you can buy new-- i mean for ones you can save from becoming e-waste. for all i dislike about intel (and it sure is a lot) im not worried about triggering dmca circumvention every time i try to install an operating system. i have dealt very little (if at all) with secure boot. ive turned it off. that dates it a bit, right?
short version: it sucks that they dropped i686. theres always connochaet os, i guess.
also i think hyperbola supports 32 bit. i hope they continue to. theres a bunch of things i could be wrong about in this post-- except the part about coming across mostly used 32bit stuff. i find thrown out 64bit stuff too, more and more. but we arent "there" yet in terms of likely used hardware.
GRUB legacy was over that i686 and i386 machines require this, where most of them are before 2005 (UEFI has been free standard since 2005). Instead if you want GRUB2-EFI you always need amd64 or arm64 for best, amd64 or armv6 or ia64 for minimum.
It becomes troublesome which you don't have EFI but you want multi-boot, esp more than 4 systems that MBR just allows 3 primary and 1 extended/logical or only 4 primary partitions.
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