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Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In a Linux distribution for a particular architecture all code is compiled to the underlying CPU architecture. Packages can also be built from source.

Proprietary software is different since it doesn't give you the freedom to build things from scratch. There are emulators, of course, but they all fundamentally suck.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago

In a Linux distribution for a particular architecture all code is compiled to the underlying CPU architecture. Packages can also be built from source.

Not all code is written portable. Say, many things won't compile or won't work under PPC64.

MIPS64 is not a very common architecture today. We know XOrg, FVWM and Emacs will probably work, so I expect this thing to be usable for many things. But not just as good as Linux on amd64.