The way they’re changing the file system, some of the upgrades on the packages. I read through the readme and I highly recommend you do it if you’re going to upgrade. I upgraded one of my test systems today and it worked okay, but I use caddy and the new version really hates my config file.
I think, after Gentoo, this is the second western distribution that supports loongarch64
I had to look up what that means, it’s a new RISC instruction set architecture being developed by a Chinese fabless chip company.
Can you even buy these chips in the west?
Never tried, but apparently there are some Loongson computers and SBCs for sale on AliExpress
Nice, I’ve been using edge, and kind forgot how alpine release works.
There’s lots of gotchas in this upgrade!
For example?
The way they’re changing the file system, some of the upgrades on the packages. I read through the readme and I highly recommend you do it if you’re going to upgrade. I upgraded one of my test systems today and it worked okay, but I use caddy and the new version really hates my config file.