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Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming to Support the $16 Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board
Author : leephillips
Score : 63 points
Date : 2022-09-17 15:37 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| Kukumber wrote:
| Ubuntu became too heavy and bloated for that kind of usecase
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| Unless they have a special distribution without the bloat?
|
| Ubuntu Core is the only one i remember, and even that one is
| pretty fat (~250mb)
|
| Also where do he see 16 USD? on that aliexpress link all i can
| see is 20 USD for the 512mb one, and that's without shipping..
| icu wrote:
| Anyone here looking to use this in IoT projects, can you please
| say what you're looking at doing, and why you'd use this versus a
| Raspberry Pi?
| amelius wrote:
| I'm confused why anyone would use a M.2 card in an IoT
| application.
|
| Is this a development board?
| rleigh wrote:
| It's a System On Module (SoM). It's designed to fit into a
| carrier board which will pass through all of the pins to the
| application-specific peripherals. The connector type is
| incidental, it's just to pass through the signals. No
| compatibility with the conventional M.2 use will be intended
| or implied.
| spyremeown wrote:
| This is not an M.2 card. This is a way to interface with a
| carrier board containing more peripherals using the M.2
| connector.
|
| Development boards such as these can be also deployed as-is
| with "production" carrier boards.
|
| The industry has reused connectors such as DIMMs and M.2s,
| and the main focus is being able to swap only the daughter-
| board to go up and down requirements and constraints as the
| project advances.
| wildzzz wrote:
| These kinds of designs are good to drop into things like
| kiosk PCs and digital signage, applications where you don't
| need a ton of processing power but still require a full
| stack of network connectivity. You could upgrade the
| compute module to better versions with faster processors or
| more memory depending on your needs. These kinds of compute
| module designs aren't very helpful for IoT designs since
| you need a carrier board. If you need to make your own
| carrier board to fit your design, why not just use an
| already existing SoC board that has everything you need?
| netr0ute wrote:
| The difference is that it's easier to make 2 M.2
| connectors and a screwpost on a board than it is to add a
| SoC, power management, and all the other baggage that
| comes with it.
| whatshisface wrote:
| This product looks comparable in both price and performance to
| the Raspberry Pi Zero WH.
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| https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
| pessimizer wrote:
| This is what I was going to ask about; if anybody had used Pi
| Zeros in a commercial product and if they would consider this
| (which is more expensive.)
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