On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@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. > > > --
