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Linus Torvalds switches to Ampere AArch64 system for building Linux Kernel

By:Avery

TapTechNews May 16th - Linux Kernel creator Linus Torvalds, originally used an Apple Silicon MacBook Air laptop to build Arm Linux, but the latest news is that he has switched to a more powerful Ampere AArch64 system.

When Torvalds was compiling and building the Linux kernel, he initially used Intel hardware, then switched to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation as his main system. In 2022, he started using an Apple M2 MacBook Air and released Linux Kernel 5.19 on that laptop.

In the Linux 6.9 update log, Torvalds wrote: Many thanks to Ampere for providing a more powerful arm64 machine, now compiling arm64 almost as much as x86-64. My M2 laptop is more like a 'weekly test build' than a 'continuous build'.

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