As I knew I was on holiday for soft freeze I got all my #qemu maintainer PRs in early for 9.0. It is now released to the wild. The big #arm64 update is FEAT_NV2 emulation as well as a number of enhancements to various board models (and some deprecations of the older unloved code). For #tcg#plugins we now support reading register values as well as a new thread-safe inline ops API. The #gdbstub also saw a number of tweaks. More to come for 9.1 and the tree is now open ;-) https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/
Is it just me or is #FFMPEG v7 way faster (on #ARM64 at least) when doing multiple things at once? (ie: #nlmeans noise reduction, #crop, then #x265)
I mean these used to take hours and hours on several of my Agatha Christie files (which need noise reduction, crop and encoding). These fly through now at about 30% time reduction per file. Not to mention about 15% smaller size (thanks x265 3.6.x update!)
Finally consolidated my notes on things I've done to get the #PineTab2 working (mostly) the way I want it to. Some gathered from the forums, some that I noticed and/or figured out myself.
Been banging my head on the keyboard for a few days trying to set up a virtualized #kvm supporting a #debian#armhf system on an #arm64 host machine... I have several machines set up with this working.
Finally had a breakthrough...
Debian does not support #secureboot on armhf. Disabled secure boot and yay, it boots the debian-installer mini.iso just fine!
Now if I could just figure out why #macvtap does not work... it would be all set to crank through lots of builds!
I'm now switching to the next generation: the :raspberrypi: #raspberry pi 5.
It's amazing how this small companion has evolved over the last decade.
Armed with #debian 12 #arm64 I'm sure we will have fun for the next years.
RPi4 was great when it came out, but bloated websites made it a lame browsing machine.
So I hope the improved performance of #RPi5 can keep up with modern trends.
Regarding power consumption nobody can beat this little hero. 🥰
So it seems like i'm gonna switch my server to a Hetzner #arm64 server.
Is there anything i should watch out for(like idk some common server software not working properly on arm yet)?
Are there any #Linux distributions with #Speakup in them that work on the new #mac machines in #vmare or #utm? I tried #debian 12 and under this distro Speakup froze up at random intervals and locked up the vm. I am starting to think that two different physical machines may be the best for me. #arm64 with #accessibility features doesn't seem to be stable enough yet for prime time.
Had to jump through way too many hoops to get Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 running in a VM on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro because Canonical/Ubuntu won't release an official Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISO image for arm64 like they do with amd64 or keep around daily builds for non-LTS releases.
The process I had to go through:
Download and install the latest daily build ISO of Desktop 22.04.3 for arm64
Run do-release-upgrade to 23.04
Once running 23.04, disable IPv6 and uninstall half of ubuntu-desktop and its dependencies for do-release-upgrade to not hang on locating upgrades and to not complain about held broke packages
Now, I have it downloading and installing kde-full so that I can get and use KDE Plasma (because, deity forbid that there is an arm64 ISO available for Kubuntu).
Also, the current daily build for 24.04 LTS arm64 is janky at best, broken at worse.
This mess almost makes me want to jump to Fedora since there is a KDE spin for arm64 for the latest release. It means that I'll have to deal with multiple distros and package managers across my development systems. Just too bad that none of the Fedora 39 ISOs will boot on my Surface Pro 3 😡
I got my VPN issues on the @PINE64 PinebookPro for my travels resolved, I just used the Private Internet Access VPN I have in my rotation as they have an #ARM64 version that worked with #Manjaro as I didn't want to tinker too much to manage multiple profiles while traveling. I also manually compiled #Veracrypt for secure file storage, and the filesystem is LUKS encrypted too. #Opensource#Linux
Ten years ago today #Apple launched the #iPhone 5S and announced the #arm64 CPU inside. It was the first public disclosure of a 64-bit ARM architecture, and it was available for you to buy in a phone. Nobody else was even close to having a chip ready to tape out, much less put in a product, and it was a performance monster.
Just confirmed with #Hetzner support that they have no plans to support #FreeBSD on their #arm64 cloud instances. Once again, #Linux continues to accelerate towards a server OS monoculture. Anyone know of affordable alternatives that do support this?
Anyone on #Hetnzer ? How are they nowadays. We’re on #digitalocean for a few servers (FlatTurtle.com) and they are definitely no longer the cheapest (once you upgrade RAM for example) and the performance hasn’t been super great (but that could be more of a feeling than something scientifically proven)