The day ARM announced their lawsuit against Qualcomm, I said that Qualcomm would switch to RISC-V on the high-end and I still expect them to do so.

Who wants to invest in home grown chip tech just to be told by ARM that they do not like your strategy or that they are not monetizing it enough? RISC-V offers total control over your tech investment strategy.

Qualcomm has not built out the ecosystem in that market yet. They can switch. And longer term, RISC-V is the clear market leader anyway. It will be the better developed ecosystem.

I would expect Snapdragon to stay ARM, but a new RISC-V family can grow beside it.

Apple is too heavily invested in ARM to switch. But most others designing and deploying their own silicon to desktop or server would be better off without ARM.

And RISC-V is already killing it in microcontrollers, automotive, and healthcare.

The place ARM is most entrenched is mobile. That is going to take longer. But if you look at ARMs licensing business model there, there will be a dozen RISC-V players playing the same game against them. That makes it very hard for ARM in the long run. It will be hard to outrun them all.

I think the novelty here is “actual” Amiga drivers in that you are running the Amiga code and not a reverse engineered implementation.

It would be so great if the world actually had the resolve to pull that off.

It is what should happen but I am not holding my breath.

In my experience, EndeavourOS works best on these old Macs.

People report good results with Mint as well but I get the impression they have to jump though more hoops to get decent WiFi.

To continue Mandriva development (same as OpenMandriva does).

Mandriva started as Mandrake Linux in the 90s. It was a Red Hat Linux alternative built for polish and performance. It was compiled for Pentium when Red Hat was still built for 386. Back in the day, it was popular and well respected.

Mandrake Linux was corporately backed in France and that company merged with Connectiva out of Brazil to create the Mandriva distro.

When Mandriva failed as a company, many of the devs continued the distro as Mageia.

Some of the original Mandriva devs later started the OpenMandriva project to make the naming even more confusing. But Mageia actually came first.

So it is mostly a distro that exists for historical reasons and as an established community. As for where it shines now, I am not sure.

I am hardly suggesting that this chip is competitive but the article is too hard on it.

In particular, this chip inherits the existing RISC-V ecosystem. The article mentions that it runs Linux and it will be well supported by compilers like GCC and Clang. If there is a niche where it fits, this chip could be put to use right away.

There are many, many applications that do not need the most powerful or even the most efficient chips.

Reliability and longevity of supply are often the most important criteria. I notice that the Indian government describes this chip as “reliable”.

At the right price and with a bit of government support, you could build a domestic industry around this thing (or future versions).

Well, you could also count packages in most Linux repos. You would reach the same conclusions.

Or, you could look at licenses on GitHub. The same story is repeated there.

I take it this collides with your assumptions?

Sucks to stop getting the new stuff. But with DKMS, sticking with 580 does not seem too terrible.

I have been waiting so long for this.

What is keeping it out of tree though? Can we not create a community driver that talks to the NVIDiA open source stuff?

It would be best to get all the Open Source stuff into the kernel even if users are going to pair it with the proprietary blob from NVIDIA.

You cannot think of any good reasons?

Ever tried clearing trees with your Accord?

There are other RISC-V distros. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Chimera Linux come to mind.

That link is 404 for me

Not quite 200 euro

https://milkv.io/titan

Another option is to run a minimal GUI with Cockpit to manage your VMs and Containers.

Have fun with Xorg. I hope it works well for you forever. Truly.

I see no reason why hardware support should get any worse for you so no problems there. And it will be a while yet before most apps stop running on Xorg.

The 78 percent of us using Wayland don’t need updates though. Thanks.

I think 1070 is a problem with recent drivers as NVIDIA has dropped support in the proprietary drivers and noveau still does not support them well.

Some have said the 550 series drivers work best for these cards: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/gtx-1070-ubuntu-24-only-550-works/332234

Plasma 6 is much improved over 5 in terms of Wayland.

What distro? Fewer problems on Arch is to be expected as it has more up to date software and drivers. On something that is improving quickly, like Wayland, that can make a lot of difference.

I really hope I remember this one long enough to make it a habit

Thank you for that