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It Seems Pop OS Linux Will Soon be Available on Raspberry Pi and
Other ARM Devices

Though not confirmed by System76 yet, Pop!_OS could be coming to ARM
devices with the release of version 21.10.
[svg][eaac712a52fb]by AbhishekOctober 4, 2021October 4, 2021

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[svg]Pop OS Linux is coming soon to Raspberry Pi

There was a time when only lightweight operating systems were
available for ARM devices like Raspberry Pi. Why? Because earlier ARM
devices had low end hardware with limited RAM and CPU.

It all changed when Raspberry Pi 4 targeted desktop users with its 8
GB variant and doubled down on it with the introduction of Raspberry
Pi 400.

This resulted in bringing the support of mainstream desktop Linux
distributions to Raspberry Pi. Thanks to that, you can now install
Ubuntu desktop on Raspberry Pi.

Since Ubuntu desktop now supports ARM devices, other Ubuntu-based
distros should join the ARM bandwagon soon. And it seems Pop!_OS is
ready to board it.

Pop OS coming soon on Raspberry Pi!

System76's Principal Engineer and maintainer of Pop!_OS, Jeremy
Soller shared a teaser photo on Twitter recently. The image is
basically a screenshot of Neofetch running in terminal.

    https://t.co/OXg3Md0erk pic.twitter.com/ehfGXwtsBf

    -- Jeremy Soller (@jeremy_soller) September 28, 2021

If you look closely, you can see that some details that indicate that
it is running on a Raspberry Pi device.

[svg][pop-os-raspberry-pi]

The host name indicates Raspberry Pi and so does the BCM2835 CPU
(chip used on Raspberry Pi devices). You can also notice the aarch64
in the OS name.

In addition to that, Jeremy also shared a repository link that
contains Pop OS packages for ARM devices. Here's the link.

     https://t.co/pKIbxX2iFk

    -- Jeremy Soller (@jeremy_soller) September 28, 2021

How soon?

There is no other information available from Systm76 on this front.
But if I have to make a guess, I would say that the upcoming Pop!_OS
21.10 version will have an ARM version for Raspberry Pi like devices.

This is not a blind guess. The ARM repository link shared by Jeremy
clearly mentions 'impish' in its directory structure. Impish Indri is
the codename for the upcoming Ubuntu 21.10 slated for release on 14th
October.

Pop!_OS 21.10 follows the release of Ubuntu 21.10 and should be
released soon afterwards. All this gives us enough clue to surmise
that Pop!_OS is coming to Raspberry Pi devices this month.

This is indeed a good thing because Pop!_OS is popular among
developers. This could mean more developers using Raspberry Pi as
their development environment.

I am delighted to see this development. How about you?

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