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Linus Torvalds Now Favors Ampere Arm Chip over Apple Silicon MacBook
Ampere's powerful Arm CPUs give the developer a hand in Linux testing
He initially began Arm64 Linux builds on an Apple Silicon MacBook Air, but now, thanks to a more powerful Ampere AArch64 system, he’s doing even more Arm64 testing. Torvalds, known for creating not just the Linux kernel but also Git, worked exclusively on Intel hardware for years. Beginning with Linux kernel 5.19, Torvalds was compiling Arm64 builds on a 2022 MacBook Air with Apple’s M2 System-on-a-Chip (SoC).
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