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if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

or is it even possible?
would i have to install arch and systemd?
are there non-systemd options for arm processors?
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

Reply #1 –
I installed voidlinux on an arm board, although their prebuilt packages are cross-compiled on x86. Debian seems to allow switch init, but I have not tried. Or devuan.

If you are fine with linux-libre, I could recommend GNU/Guix. And if you compile packages on your own, Gentoo/Funtoo also work.

Re: if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

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what no linux from scratch on arm recommendations????  it's not like i could install steam and game on this thing:

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-Pi-5-plus.html

apparently there is or was a 32gb variant some people made youtube videos of but it seems to have been vaporware.

gentoo kept requiring me to use a password manager and i hate that.  stupid popups.  if i get so old i need a pw manager i'm better off removing myself from the internet.
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

Reply #4 –
Arm is not like x86 with a a standard bios or uefi. Though some arm devices do support uefi.
So you need to be specific about the device.
 
In theory if an arm64 device has any linux image available you may be able to edit that image and replace the rootfs with the armtix rootfs. Kernel could be an issue though.

If it's an older armv7 device you can use arch linux arm , if the device is supported, then compile a few (about 7 I think?) artix packages and sledgehammer openrc into the place of systemd if you want rid of it.

Re: if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

Reply #5 –
orangepi has an arch image so i think it could be doable...  the swapping out the rootfs?
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: if i bought an arm based pc how would i get artix on it?

Reply #6 –
I have a mostly armtix installation on RPI4. It was originally based on https://armtix.artixlinux.org/, but I believe maintainer, phoenix_king_rus (https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php?action=profile;u=84), has had difficulties recently. His kernel packages became harder to use. I then switched to using a self built kernel based on https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux-rpi4-mainline with a substitute logo and name change etc etc.

The manjaro installation involves other packages as well firmware-raspberrypi rpi-overlays etc. Currently it seems to work. With a late mainstream kernel (6.6.5).  However, it is a pain to track the changes made by manjaro / rpi as they continue to develop around hardware changes etc.

As others have said ARM is more varied than the intel/amd world.
 

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It wasn't a very big deal, but at some point the wlan device failed to work. I tried quite hard to find the difference between working manajaro kernel, alarm rpi4 and the armtix  kernel I had been using, but couldn't figure out exactly why it failed.

The best documentation for rpi4 uses their boot strategy and not bootstrap. I think manjaro sticks fairly close to rpi so I ended up copying their kernel.

Changing the logo etc was a minimal change. Problem is that it requires other manjaro packages now  and at some point I expect they'll follow the new systemd Unified kernel images route which will make things impossible for non-systemd persons. Bah :(