[HN Gopher] Now you can run Ubuntu on a RISC-V computer that cos...
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       Now you can run Ubuntu on a RISC-V computer that costs less than
       $20
        
       Author : AlexKraken
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-10-26 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | bingohbangoh wrote:
       | I've never had success ordering on Aliexpress. The orders always
       | get canceled. I made an account specifically to order RISCV
       | boards and none have gone through.
       | 
       | Am I going crazy or is this just bad luck?
        
         | BluePen7 wrote:
         | I buy a lot of small electrical components from AliExpress and
         | have had a near perfect success rate here in Canada (not bulk,
         | maybe 1-5 of each to have spares). Just lots of soldering
         | accessories (and my TS100 soldering iron).
         | 
         | Only board I've ordered has been an Orange Pi, and it claims to
         | have arrived in my mailbox (I've been away from home).
        
       | mikece wrote:
       | You've got my attention: this is a possible replacement for the
       | Raspberry Pi units we've been using for IoT applications
       | (hopefully this device will support AWS Greengrass 2?). However,
       | unless it can ship in quantity it's little more than an
       | amusement. Getting Ubuntu or NetBSD to run on new hardware isn't
       | the challenge: getting sufficient quantities of the units for
       | prime-time use is.
        
         | rektide wrote:
         | Probably more rpi zero speed than rpi 3 or 4 speed. 1GHz single
         | core.
         | 
         | But yes, options are very much needed.
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | AllWinner did a run rumoured to be 5 million dies back in 2019
         | so there are plenty of the chips floating around (I'm doubtful
         | there are very many of these boards - maybe 1000s?). The
         | numbers are probaby dwarfed by the number of Broadcom chips
         | shipped every month though :-/
         | 
         | The ecosystem as a whole is very undeveloped compared to
         | Raspberry Pi, but that's what we're all working on. It'll take
         | time!
         | 
         | I should add that I have another board which uses the same chip
         | & it's slow as molasses, although probably similar to a
         | similarly priced Arm chip running Linux. You get what you pay
         | for, and you're not paying very much.
        
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