Wow. Much bigger differences than I was expecting.
Anybody know how software support is looking for 64Bit? OS support is good but presumably the software itself needs to be arm 64 compiled too?
Anybody know how software support is looking for 64Bit? OS support is good but presumably the software itself needs to be arm 64 compiled too?
I've used both the original Raspbian 64-bit builds and plain Debian 64-bit with the few required RaspberryPi specific tools added in. Kernels are all self-built (cross-compiled) keeping up with mainline Linux.
I've said this before, that instead of focusing on building a custom distro everyone would benefit if they instead focused on just enabling all the other distro's and OS's. Pretty much everything, including windows runs on the darn thing, its the closest piece of HW in the arm ecosystem (other than the server class machines) to a random PC motherboard when it comes to just about working with any given OS.
That said, yes one would very much hope that everyone can work together to make the diff between Debian and its downstreams as small as possible given the constraints that each party operates under.