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On 20/12/21 5:52 pm, Curt wrote:
On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> writes:

Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V?
Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open
alternative even more so.

I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a decent
desktop or laptop computer. Raspberry Pi is scratching and clawing its
way there little by little. As the Pi 4 has exposed a PCIe connection,
it has a viable storage now for a small system. But still slow and weird
form factor. Maybe in Pi 6 or maybe 10? Who knows.
The 3.14159265359 is still popular.

RISC-V is better in the form factor part as there's a standard Mini-ITX
board but the price and performance aren't there yet. Not to mention
software support. I'd want an official Debian release first.



There are a few ARM SBC that are very powerful - better than Pi 4. They have NVME/PCiE disk interfaces and several USB 3.0 interfaces.

The NanoPi M4V2 is one such, but there are several competitors mostly using RockChip chipsets.

They run Armbian and usually have integrated gigabit LAN (2.5 Gigabit with the right drivers) and dual band wifi and bluetooth.

As a workstation they are more than adequate. As a home server they are more than adequate.

--
Jeremy

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