Does anyone want to help porting Slint on ARM?
by Didier Spaier from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4WHXR)
Hello,
Currently Slint is provided only for x86_64.
It would be nice to provide an ARM edition, to help users (including blind ones) who can hardly afford a decent x86_64 machine able to run Slint.
There is a new opportunity to help those people, now that the Raspberry Pi 4 is available.
Unfortunately I can't handle a ARM port myself, by lack of knowledge and of time (maintaining the x86_64 port is already a full time occupation).
So if anyone is willing to help, please answer either in this thread or sending me an email.
What's needed is to build many more packages for ARM than for Slackware, that could be shipped in an ISO and made available on a mirror alongside this one (or rather, the one that will be set up for Slint 15.0).
Currently we have 621 packages built specifically for Slint in the main repository, plus 180 packages for locales and 106 voices packages. Only the packages in the main repo have to be built individually. The build scripts are a mix of SlackBuilds and SLKBUILD's (as in Salix).
Have a good day (or night, depending on your time zone).
PS There is already an accessible distribution helping blind people with low income to use Linux (and build their own talking computer) of which I know several devs, but it is based on Arch, cf.: https://www.voiss.tech/en/. It would be nice to cooperate with them.
Currently Slint is provided only for x86_64.
It would be nice to provide an ARM edition, to help users (including blind ones) who can hardly afford a decent x86_64 machine able to run Slint.
There is a new opportunity to help those people, now that the Raspberry Pi 4 is available.
Unfortunately I can't handle a ARM port myself, by lack of knowledge and of time (maintaining the x86_64 port is already a full time occupation).
So if anyone is willing to help, please answer either in this thread or sending me an email.
What's needed is to build many more packages for ARM than for Slackware, that could be shipped in an ISO and made available on a mirror alongside this one (or rather, the one that will be set up for Slint 15.0).
Currently we have 621 packages built specifically for Slint in the main repository, plus 180 packages for locales and 106 voices packages. Only the packages in the main repo have to be built individually. The build scripts are a mix of SlackBuilds and SLKBUILD's (as in Salix).
Have a good day (or night, depending on your time zone).
PS There is already an accessible distribution helping blind people with low income to use Linux (and build their own talking computer) of which I know several devs, but it is based on Arch, cf.: https://www.voiss.tech/en/. It would be nice to cooperate with them.