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sof		web
	Project
18	Mentions	64
502	Stars	4
4.0%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	4.5
2 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C	Language	HTML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

sof

Posts with mentions or reviews of sof. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-14.

Open Source Firmware Conference
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023

Any chance you can get some movement inside Intel on the Sound Open Firmware user-signing issue?
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814
Only took me three days, but that's Arch on a 15Gb Acer Chromebook from 2018.
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 17 Mar 2023

here is this https://github.com/thesofproject/sof
SOF ES8336
1 project | /r/debian | 30 Oct 2022

If you search for guidance, file a bug on the SOF project on GitHub: they are very collaborative.
Linux seems to be working "fine" on the Acer CB-315-3H
1 project | /r/chrultrabook | 9 Oct 2022

Hm well the kernel is at 5.18 so that should be good then, by sof are you referring to this? https://github.com/thesofproject/sof
Debian Votes to Include Proprietary Firmware, Amends Social Contract
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2022

Most firmware is either a binary blob without source, or has public freely licensed source code. The Intel Sound Open Firmware is a weird mix though, public freely licensed source code but most of the hardware can only run Intel signed firmware.
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5814
Dream Project w/ Audio DSP
1 project | /r/osdev | 4 Aug 2022
Asus Zenbook 14 OLED
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Jul 2022

Audio not working but seems some work being done on it https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5867
Linux Audio issues with Samsung XE500C13 (CELES) | PulseAudio & ALSA
2 projects | /r/chrultrabook | 13 Jul 2022
How to install sof-firmare step by step? (New to ubuntu)
2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Apr 2022
Thoughts on Manjaro?
2 projects | /r/chrultrabook | 3 Mar 2022

see: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/5361

web

Posts with mentions or reviews of web. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Okay so the arch iso aint booting on my system
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 10 May 2023

The other iso i tried is a few of these https://archlinuxgui.in
Best OS for R11 Cyan Braswell?
1 project | /r/chrultrabook | 7 May 2023

I got my Arch Linux with KDE Plasma here: https://archlinuxgui.in
Is there a way to preinstall nvidia drivers on arch install iso?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 12 Apr 2023
Can't connect to network
1 project | /r/archlinux | 6 Apr 2023
How to make font rendering like Ubuntu?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 3 Apr 2023

I used this https://archlinuxgui.in/. I wanted to use the AUR and have the latest and greatest of every package.
How to customize Arch Xfce to look like this?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 18 Jan 2023
Archboot 2023.01 - Arch Linux images released
1 project | /r/linux | 17 Jan 2023
I've been hopping a bit to find my next distro but running into some issues with certain iso's
1 project | /r/DistroHopping | 2 Jan 2023

Try… • Gecko Linux • Spiral Linux • wattOS • KaOS Linux • Porteus Linux • Devuan • Slitaz • Not a fan of arch but try https://archlinuxgui.in • I’ll never suggest anything Ubuntu. 🤣
Best Distro for 4GB Ram Macbook Air
1 project | /r/FindMeADistro | 19 Oct 2022

https://archlinuxgui.in/ Xfce version is lightweight, because Arch Linux is a rolling release distro you can still use these old iso's like normal and everything will be updated
Trouble with ICC profile loading
2 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 28 Sep 2022

Arch Linux x86_x64 (using https://archlinuxgui.in/ and https://github.com/arch-linux-gui/arch-linux-gui-xfce/tree/9a8f8ab254745cbaef45a7587a5ce5e6f9ada1e8), kernel 5.19.11 ASUS X555BA (AMD A9-9410, Radeon R5 APU)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sof and web you can also consider the following projects:

JDSP4Linux - An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

holoiso - SteamOS 3 (Holo) archiso configuration [Moved to: https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso]

aubio - a library for audio and music analysis

archwiki - MediaWiki used on Arch Linux websites (read-only mirror)

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

awesome-cli-apps - 🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

sof-bin - Firmware and topology binaries

distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

Braswell-EDGAR-Linux-Fixes - Fix sound and other essentials on Braswell-based Chromebooks running Linux

archweb - Arch Linux website code

sp - simple/sound pipe

archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer