On: Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook

[johng]

I installed a "sister" of this OS on a UTM VM on Mac silicon. They have an LTS release of Bluefin that supports ARM. That OS seems to rely (or heavily use) Brew on Linux and Homebrew on Linux doesn't support ARM.

I was a bit disappointed... none of the docs really mention this.

[miles → johng]

> none of the docs really mention this

Searching for the sister distro you mentioned, this[1] was one of the first links I stumbled upon, which included a link to the ARM ISO[2] and checksum[3] along with this note:

> No homebrew, they don’t have arm builds, we will include Pixi[4] instead, which is a nice package manager built on the popular conda ecosystem - there’s some good stuff in there!

[1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-f...

[2] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso

[3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE...

[4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi

[superb_dev → miles]

So they’re just slapping any old package manager in there? That’s not how you get a cohesive system

[jcastro → johng]

comaintainer here, here's the docs for the arm build: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/lts#differenceserrata

Here's the issue for homebrew on linux/arm: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19208

And here's the FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6373-home...