Built for Rapid Upstream Delivery
Rolling releases with upstream tracking bring new RISC-V features and fixes to you sooner—less waiting, less rework.
Built for RISC-V Developers
Stay close to upstream to reduce backports and forks. Easier reproduction, faster debugging, smoother upstream contributions.
Built for Early Validation
Surfaces firmware, platform semantics, and Linux interoperability issues early—so vendors fix faster, reduce divergence, and reach mainstream OS compatibility sooner.
I don’t want to be a downer here, but this is the same BS funds gathering as everything that wants to be a “gaming” distro.
Unless you can show there is a FUNDAMENTAL difference in the way this operates versus others, this is bullshit.
The upstream Linux kernel provides the driver layer for all CPU and SOC compatibility. There is no wiggle room here with custom modules to support the basic thing that bootstraps everything else.
This distro isn’t even claiming they have some IP that makes this somehow geared towards RISC-V, when all you have to do is target that architecture and ensure packages you install are cross-compiled for that very same architecture.
This is some nonsensical branding bullshit. If I claimed to make a distro for a hardware platform that operates 1000’ above Sea Level, I had better show up with some benchmarks, stats, and reasoning why this matters at all.
I knew something smelled fishy about Bazzite and friends. It went from being completely unheard of to every Youtuber’s favorite distro damn near overnight and I was left scratching my head as to why. Like, I get it’s nice to have the NVidia drivers baked into the base image, but the fact that they have to do that at all seems like an argument in favor of a more traditional distro for gaming to me.
I largely agree, but I could see having a prebuild iso/img including uboot for most common boards being a lot more user friendly than doing it by hand.
That and a binary cache could make things take a couple mins for a download vs a couple days to compile the kernel + all packages for any user with lower end hardware.
Kinda like what armbian provides for the arm space, but with a lot harder initial curve by hand rolling their own distro.
Thats cool as fuck! With the kinda progress asahi has made I’d love for this to streamline riscV support for devs working on it ☺️
