#neofetch dies and #fastfetch my new friend
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🎨 Neofetch Journey Ends, Repository Now Archived
➥ @linuxiac

「 Sadly, the project hasn’t been updated since August 2020, and after almost four years without any new developments, it was recently placed in read-only mode and archived just a few days ago. What does this mean? 」

https://linuxiac.com/neofetch-tool-now-discontinued/

#neofetch #opensource #linux

Random #xterm tip: To enable #sixel display of colorful images, add these to your X resources:

XTerm*decGraphicsID: 340
XTerm*numColorRegisters: 1024

Usecase: No idea, but it *does* look kind of nice with #neofetch 🙈 (here using the official #FreeBSD logo converted to PNG)

So, when it comes to the #StarFive VF2 board I tried to collect some information in general as well as VF2 specific ones. We also have a #RISCV (#risc #risc64 #riscv64) Matrix chat in the #BSDCafe which you can find here:
#RISCV64:bsd.cafe

You can find more to regarding my initial ideas, reasons and information here: https://gyptazy.ch/misc/switching-from-arm64-to-open-riscv-hardware-architecture/

Some #VisionFive (#VisionFive2) specific things like benchmarks, images (collection) or precompiled software like #snac2 (Fediverse instance server), matrix-synapse (Matrix server), #unixbench etc can be found here:
https://gyptazy.ch/misc/collection-of-images-and-information-for-risc64-board-visionfive2/

Keep in mind that not all OS images may work fully and may lack drivers. For my #FreeBSD one for example you can just boot into memory. Debian runs quite well but still needs a custom kernel (do not upgrade the kernel unless you know what you’re doing). Even RISCV is tier 2 level in FreeBSD many things are missing. Pkg completely, ports is a mess. However, you may find QEMU RISCV images to cross-build stuff from your amd64 or ARM64 machine right here: https://gyptazy.ch/misc/freebsd-14-riscv64-build-box-image-for-qemu/

Here you can find a real life test where the board served for a day my whole website (based on #manpageblog) and some other ones:
https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1706078460.746773

Btw, here’s a #neofetch output:
https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1707391057.757603

Here's the #neofetch output on the #StarFive #VisionFive2 board based on #RISCV running #Debian #Linux. If you have any question, feel free to ask.

#risc #riscv64 #openhardware #opensource