Hello! So many distros do arm64 now! I have an Orange Pi 5 Max and am wondering where Cachy arm64 is
I’m running arch on my Pi5. I asked about CachyOS ARM64 before, the main problem is that arch arm64 itself has problems apparently. For server stuff (dockers, jellyfin, nextcloud, seaweedfs, samba, etc.) I am completely fine with arch. 2x4TB RAID1 for important stuff and 1x16TB for media files. The Penta HAT works like a charm.
Installing xfce4 or kodi also just works, but KDE Plasma is not as easy as installing it through the package manager.
I had to manually compile yay and through yay a lot of packages can be built, like zeroclaw for example. (Although I had to eventually cross-compile zeroclaw on my x86 machine because the Pi5 ran out of memory I would assume)
This workaround I posted to have it boot/use the correct kernel is still needed AFAIK
For the penta hat there are issues with the newest kernel, if anyone has problems reply to this and I’ll look up what kernel I’m using
Still waiting
I’m using NixOS for now but I’m not loving how it works and the whole configuration.nix thing
What is going on with CachyOS? Why have they fallen so far behind with arm64 when countless other distros are all embracing it
The upstream situation is about what it has been as far as I know. Maybe behind the scenes movement but still similar what’s outward facing - there’s archlinuxarm and the unofficial port Aarch64 | Arch Linux Ports . I run the unofficial port on a device and it works great for me but that’s in a limited role.
If Cachy want to focus on Cachy sauce on top of something that’s official Arch, the official Arch thing needs to exist.
brutal.. well, just checking in, that I am still anxiously awaiting any kind of progress here. I have openSUSE, Arch, NixOS, Debian, all kinds of stuff that ALL have working arm64 distributions at this point. Bred, Beryllium, the list just goes on and on.
I’m not sure why you think pawning off the blame to some bizarre ALARM project is the answer here, but hey, I guess man
Maybe time to de-couple from a useless, stagnant project?
I’m genuinely curious, did you guys even look at the latest Steam hardware survey?
What on earth are you doing?
Arch Linux on ARM (ALARM) is the official Arch on arm project.
And just like x86_64 .. it would need to exist and be in a good place before a Cachy derivative of it could exist. At least if the same development process is followed as it was with x86_64.
This would be like asking for Mint to exist before Debian or Ubuntu did.
What on earth are you trying to say?
That mostly everything you’ve commented on as a response is irrelevant and can’t be broadly applied to CachyOS?
Why are you dependent on a bizarre, slowly moving, mostly abandoned or useless project?
I still haven’t gotten the answer to that question
Thanks again
Which part? How?
Cachy is not an independent OS that exists on its own merit.
Its a retooling of an existing distro with rebuilds of some of those packages and some default presets.
Without Arch there is no Cachy.
And not just for the final product. You cant run a Cachy system without also relying on the Arch repositories. Remove them and you have a broken system.
If you do not think Cachy is directly related to what Arch is then I do not know how to convince you otherwise.
ArchLinuxArm is the longstanding ARM version of Arch, not “bizarre”.
There’s also the “unofficial port” pushing to be more official…but they still have some extremely basic things on their to-do list still (feel free to contribute!)
No, no you don’t. That’s the point. There’s a downstream project (ALARM) with a chequered history of inconsistent maintenance and an immature “unofficial” port that’s partially under arch and from public accounts aiming to be official.
Can either project be made to work on some ARM hardware? Sure. Is either ready to be a cachy upstream (meaning cachy can put in effort and scope in line with their existing project and expect a reliable result)? Not really. The unofficial port still has “determine bootloader support” as an open item. In other words, they haven’t finalized how one should expect to boot their OS going forward.