Collabora Releases First 64-bit Arm Arch Linux Packages as it Prepares for Valve's Steam Frame VR
Gaming giant Valve is preparing to launch a virtual reality headset dubbed the Steam Frame, and open source software engineering firm Collabora has been tapped to provide the operating system — with the first build of Holo Core, an Arch Linux port for 64-bit Arm chips, now available for testing.
"Valve uses an adapted version of the Arch Linux distribution in its products," explains Collabora's Denis Pynkin of the company's adoption of Linux-based operating systems to power its popular Steam Deck handheld and upcoming Steam Machine PC-slash-console. "At Collabora we have been working with Valve on Holo Core, a pure aarch64 port of Arch Linux to be used as the basis for the OS running on the Steam Frame, which uses an aarch64 CPU."
Collabora has released the first preview of an Arch Linux port for aarch64 chips — as part of its work with Valve on the Steam Frame...
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