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"No matter what they say, I love Gion.Even in my sleep,The sound of waterFlows beneath my pillow". Yoshii Isamu (1886–1960)

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Valve and Collabora are building an Arm64 port of Arch Linux for the Steam Frame VR gaming platform, with hopes that the work will eventually feed into the upstream distro. Arch Linux has spawned a whole family of derivatives, but the official upstream distro targets 64-bit x86 and nothing else. As the homepage says: "Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture." Valve and Collabora would like to change that. The pair are developing an Arm64 port called Holo Core, initially as the foundation of the Steam Frame's operating system. Other Arch derivatives exist, including ArchLinux32 for x86-32 machines and the systemd-free Artix Linux. There is also an Arm flavor called Arch Linux ARM, sometimes known as ALARM for short. ALARM supports an impressive list of platforms – we count 61 different Arm devices, including the Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 4, and Zero 2. However, this is not an official variant but an independent downstream port. Its main GitHub repo demonstrates the difference: it has a PKGBUILDs repository, which contains specially modified PKGBUILD scripts to build Arm versions of the upstream Arch packages. As the Arch wiki explains, the PKGBUILD system constitutes the Arch Linux build scripts. The new Arm port was rumored back in May and the longer-term ambition is to build Arm64 support right into the original PKGBUILD scripts so that they can build for both x86-64 and Arm64. The reason for the port is the forthcoming Steam Frame VR headset, as we reported back in November. Now that the company is taking orders for the Steam Machine, the other new hardware platform for SteamOS 3 is getting closer. SteamOS 3 is the modern version of Valve's Linux OS, as opposed to the original Debian-based SteamOS, which The Reg reported on back in 2013. Version 3 was a total rebuild, based on Arch Linux, and its internal codename was "Holo" – for example, as seen in the unofficial Holo ISO rebuild. The existing Steam Deck and forthcoming Steam Machine use AMD CPUs, but the new Steam Frame won't, although for now the specs only say that it will use a "4 nm Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3." It's built for streaming games and media from other devices, but it will be able to play them locally as well, and Valve has been funding development of the FEX emulation engine for running x86 binaries on Arm – as we mentioned in connection with Steam on Arm64 Ubuntu recently. Building the port requires substantial work on the build system and CI pipeline, plus rebuilding thousands of packages and dependencies. This can only help the continued rise of Arch. Last year, we reported it topping the Steam Survey charts for Linux. As we write, the June 2026 Steam Survey has Steam OS Holo 64-bit at 22.83 percent, followed by CachyOS – another Arch variant – at 14.03 percent. Those are the only two distros with double-digit percentages, and combined with the other Arch variants, they make up 47.49 percent of Steam Linux usage. There's no installable image yet, but Collabora has released preview binaries, source packages, and a development container. On an x86 host, the easiest way to experiment is through the container using QEMU emulation. Bootnote We're not aware of any official connection, but the FEX name strongly reminds us of DEC's FX!32 high-performance emulator for running x86-32 binaries on its Alpha CPUs – as the infant Reg mentioned in 1999. All RISC versions of Windows NT contained an emulator for 16-bit x86 binaries, but only DEC could run Win32 ones – quickly too. ®

In een loods aan het Zuideinde in Barendrecht is een grote hoeveelheid gestolen goederen aangetroffen. De spullen zijn waarschijnlijk gestolen van een schip op de Maasvlakte en hebben een waarde van 450.000 euro. De vondst werd afgelopen donderdag gedaan, maar de politie heeft het nieuws dinsdag pas gedeeld.

Een automobilist op de A15 is in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag behoorlijk door de mand gevallen. De bestuurder reed met 198 kilometer per uur over de snelweg ter hoogte van de Waalhaven in Rotterdam.

Weer voor Rotterdam ⛅ - 21-07-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 21.8°C · Gedeeltelijk bewolkt ⛅ | Min 14.5°C / Max 22.3°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.5°C, Max 22.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 344°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 22.0°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 340°
• 15:00: 22.3°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• 16:00: 22.2°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 333°
• 17:00: 21.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1025.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.2 km/u (4.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• 18:00: 20.9°C (Zonnig) ☀️, 🧭 1025.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 329°
• 19:00: 20.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• 20:00: 19.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• 21:00: 18.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↓ 340°
• 22:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 341°
• 23:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 337°
• 00:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 328°
• 01:00: 18.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 326°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• woensdag 22 juli: Min 16.9°C, Max 19.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1023.8 hPa ↘️ -2.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.8 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 323°
• donderdag 23 juli: Min 15.1°C, Max 19.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ↘️ -2.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• vrijdag 24 juli: Min 13.9°C, Max 23.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↘️ -3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 274°
• zaterdag 25 juli: Min 16.6°C, Max 25.8°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 9%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ↘️ -9.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.4 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 238°
• zondag 26 juli: Min 15.7°C, Max 19.6°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 13.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1002.6 hPa ↘️ -6.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.5 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: → 280°
• maandag 27 juli: Min 15.8°C, Max 20.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1014.5 hPa ↗️ +11.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.3 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 308°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 21.8°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 20.9°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 34.2 km/h (9.5 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 45%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1026.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 33.9 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 6.6
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:48 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:48

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 24 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 3.5 μg/m³
• PM10: 6.5 μg/m³

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