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  • The article has one sentence on using older versions for better compatability with some games.

    The rest of the article is basically summed up by “bigger number means newer”

    The whole article seemed very surface level and didn’t really give any more info than could be derived from the names of the versions. As for the community forks mentioned people could find much better info just looking at the readme.

    Maybe I’m just too technical but it just feels to me as pointless as an article explaining the difference between hot and cold taps on a sink.

    Edit: fix autocorrect







  • wiccan2@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlELI5: What is RISC-V?
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    9 months ago

    So the main part of a computer that controls everything has a specific set of things it can do. Imagine that each of these things can be triggered by a button on a control panel.

    Every company making this part of the computer has their own set of things and layout for the buttons to trigger them and you have to pay them money to learn what the things are and how to press the buttons.

    RISC-V offers a set of things and a button layout that the community can freely see and use.

    In this example a computer program is just the list of instructions saying which buttons to press in what order.