Hi All, I am happy to announce that today, the kingstone has been placed on top of the parabola risc-V port, meaning that we can now reliably produce virtual machine images running on both the riscv64 and the powerpc64le architectures.
parabola is completely self-sufficient and self-hosted on these systems, which means that, while the amount of available packages is limited, the entire system, and indeed every other package, can be built and reproduced using only packages that are already available and no further cross-compilation is needed. All of this work has been done on x86_64 parabola GNU/Linux-libre hosts using exclusively free software, so the ports are not tainted by non-free software. If you want to check out the virtual machine images, they are available here: https://mirror.grapentin.org/parabola-ports/riscv64/ https://mirror.grapentin.org/parabola-ports/powerpc64le/ We are currently limited by a lack of actual hardware, which we would need to progress further with these ports. There might be unforseen issues if you try to deploy parabola to a physical device. Feel free to contact us if you have a device to spare! Best Regards, Andreas oaken-source for the parabola project https://parabola.nu -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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