This is great stuff and, though I’ve not much insight into Arch, I think a big contriubuiton back for the project/community.
That said, the Frame is the first electronics project in the last… 10 years? that I’ve been anticipating the release of, while theres lots of signs of life (more games Verified for Frame, more shipments) some of the news makes the realise itself feel very far away.
I’m well aware I’ve invested way too much, personally, in a product launch, but there’s no unwinding it now.
Same. It’s going to massively benefit handheld Linux gaming.
They, uh, didn’t even mention the ALARM project?
It doesn’t appear to rely on ALARM, does it? I haven’t dug through the sources thoroughly yet, but I haven’t see anything there that indicates they’re using ALARM stuff.
Yeah, they jumped straight into reinventing the wheel for some reason. Alarm forums may be dead but the project and repos are still getting updates. Why spin your own shit?
What’s there to reinvent? Upstream Linux software already builds for ARM.
Package repositories, recipes, and support paths
Did ALARM have reproducible builds? They go into that in the article.
