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Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (supermeter.social)
submitted 8 months ago by tuckerm@supermeter.social to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
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Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I'm wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images:

and the Pine64 Star64 has a community-maintained Armbian image.

Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

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[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

It's set for release in H2 of this year. This should be an actual desktop-class processor, performance-wise. Mini-ITX form factor too! The RISC-V processors are going through generations blazingly fast. Probably partly because we hobbyists get to do some QA.

I would caution though that this is still likely in the territory of "dev board". Probably not going to be mainstream-ready and will have plenty of quirks. But, it's a really big step forward.

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