Are we going to just stop borrowing from the linux community now?

[audiomatt]

One of the greatest things about the transition to OSX was getting the thousands useful linux tools that existed already. How will an ARM transition effect that? Is every piece of software for linux going to have to be redeveloped in XCode to be compilable in ARM?

 

[YanniDepp]

... you're aware that UNIX tools are already available for ARM, right?

There's a huge community of Linux users on the ARM architecture. That's what the Raspberry Pi is.

 

[jabbawok]

I would suspect there are more devices running linux on ARM than X86. Count up all the routers, TVs, Android devices, Printers and god knows what else.

 

[ssls6]

Unix was on RISC long before it came on x86 (Linux).

 

[baselinegrid]

Aaand GNU tools were available on OS X before it was intel. 😉

Many tools will be recompiled for the new architecture, yes. I wouldn’t worry.

 

[throAU]

One of the greatest things about the transition to OSX was getting the thousands useful linux tools that existed already. How will an ARM transition effect that? Is every piece of software for linux going to have to be redeveloped in XCode to be compilable in ARM?

1. Most of the tools are FreeBSD NOT LINUX
2. (re: the command line tools) its all open source and compiles on anything from a raspberry pi to an a cray