For more than 20 years, @osuosl has been providing critical infrastructure for major FOSS projects. In particular, it hosts Kali Linux ARM build servers and GitLab runners: https://www.kali.org/blog/ampere/.
Now they are facing a difficult time and need help to keep going. To learn more, please read the announcement from its director Lance Albertson: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
Kali LinuxAmpere Hardware & Kali Linux | Kali Linux BlogWhen Ampere partnered with Debian, this caught our eye. We were aware that our current ARM cloud provider was soon ending support for arm64 servers (which we use for our build daemons).
At Kali Linux, one of the things which is important to us, is that we prefer not having to cross-compile our ARM binaries that we ship in our Kali packages. There are various reasons as to why, some of them are: