Re: I am currently porting Trisquel to RISC-V.

Someone would still have to develop the packages for risc-v though.

While possible, I don't think there is a lot of risc-v hardware yet to justify this. But probe me wrong whomever if you know otherwise!

I would love to be wrong here.

I am not super knowledgeable about this but am commenting because I worry that @davidpgil might become discouraged by @Psion's comments. I do not think that @Psion is deliberately trying to discourage @davidpgil, but I think his comments need to be put in perspective.

First to correct @davidpgil's English: He wrote "thank you all for bothering me". What he should have written in proper English is "Thank you all for allowing me to bother you", to which I respond that "It is no bother, what you wrote was extremely interesting."

@Psion wrote: "Someone would still have to develop the packages for risc-v though." Did @Psion check @davidpgil's Contents-riscv64 file to see how many apps he apparently has already developed? Surely @Psion does not mean that @davidpgil needs to convert every app ever written to riscv64. If, in fact, all the apps listed in the Contents file work, that should encourage a lot of people besides him to work to convert other apps so that Trisquel can be extended to the risc-v architecture, even if that requires more than a single key-stroke to do so.

As I said, I do not think @Psion is trying to be discouraging, so I hope I do not seem to be criticizing him. I am trying to encourage @davidpgil and hope those more knowledgeable than I about what has been accomplished and what remains to be done also will contribute to this thread. It would be magnificent if more computers were available to believers in libre-software.