Linux runs on ARM, as well as on Alpha, ARC, C-Sky, Hexagon, LoongArch, m68k, Microblaze, MIPS, Nios II, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, Power ISA, RISC-V, ESA/390, z/Architecture, SuperH, SPARC, x86, and Xtensa
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If your system is ARM SystemReady certified, then yes.
Raspberry pis are arm based and run linux
The Asahi Project even has Fedora Linux running on Apple Silicon Macs, which are ARM-based.
Linux runs on just about anything, including arches you've never heard of. With arm, assuming you can get at the bootloader, your largest problem is likely to be assembling a compatible device tree if the manufacturer doesn't provide one.
Pretty sure that compared to NetBSD, Linux still runs on relatively few architectures. 😝
Linux has run on ARM procs for some time. Software is a little hit or miss, but most things have a compiled build for it at this point. A lot of the big servers are running ARM processors due to potential power savings.
The popularity of the Raspberry Pi really increased the number of projects with ARM builds as well. It's been possible to run a pretty decent desktop stack for 10 or 15 years. When the Pi2B came out.
If you happen to run across a project that is not available on ARM you might give a go at compiling it yourself. About half of the time it's not too difficult and a good beginner project.
Yeah it does but it really vary from vendor, arm much locked down to what vendor do
only the ARM versions
i mean on pc arm
Yes, that too.
I guess most arm devices have only Linux implemented.
Only if you have a very long arm, like Monkey D Luffy.
please take your meds.
Linux will run on a potato, and it doesn't even have to have hardware memory management.
It is already reality .... Since quite a few years ...
It's already running on a gazillion devices.
Take that, Java
Does it work on arm terminals? I want it on a Pip Boy. Do I need to run the Demon Summoning Program in Wine or is there a native ELF class?
My iomega ARM based NAS from 15 years ago runs Debian
I had, 17 years ago, a D-Link DNS 232 NAS with an Arm CPU. It ran a pirated (GPL violating) version of Linux. A lawsuit happened, and people published a free version which could install debian in a chroot. I ran an nginx webserver on it, and MoinMoin wiki. The wiki was a tad slow because the box had only 32 Megabyte of RAM (yes, Megabytes). But it worked nicely for years. Had to take it down when Python2 was not supported any more, since MoinMoin developers never managed to port it to Python 3.
Yep, they work decently. Mine has 256Mb RAM and handles music streaming and Samba Shares via OoenMediaVault. I have it blocked from the internet these days since it can't install latest kernels and probably has a ton of exploit CVEs