“It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X takes a lot longer.”<p>I laughed at this - amazing work once again.
Nice, but I prefer something slightly more Powerful like the Unihiker with a Rockchip 3308 (<a href="https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2691.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2691.html</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBhBfV3Kfw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBhBfV3Kfw</a>) or the Funkey S (<a href="https://www.funkey-project.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.funkey-project.com/</a>) with an Allwinner V3s... or even the non open X-Boy Plus (<a href="https://github.com/hsinyuwang/X-Boy">https://github.com/hsinyuwang/X-Boy</a>) with Allwinner T113-S3.<p>I'm still keeping an Eye on these device types because someday I hope it will be possible to create my personal Audio Player / iPod Nano clone with Wifi and long battery life by putting a buildroot based image (<a href="https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-OS">https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-OS</a>) and Running a C# or Flutter UI on the framebuffer (<a href="https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/guides/deep-dives/running-on-raspbian-lite-via-drm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/guides/deep-dives/running-o...</a>)<p>I think Mango Pis Cyberpad 1 is pretty close to my wishes, but I haven't had the time to check it out :-)
<a href="https://mangopi.org/cp1m" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mangopi.org/cp1m</a>
Do people know about new RISC-V based boards to experiment with? The other day I found Milk-V Duo [0], a $9 computer that runs Linux, and watched a cool video demonstration [1]. Another interesting board is the BeagleV®-Ahead [2], but there must be many more such open source HW/SW projects.<p>[0] <a href="https://milkv.io/duo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://milkv.io/duo</a><p>[1] <a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=z-GoLDQHYsE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://yewtu.be/watch?v=z-GoLDQHYsE</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead</a><p><i>Update</i>: Found this discussion on the Milk-V of 3 months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377439">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377439</a>
I do like how this comes up here almost perfectly once a year :)<p>I did improve upon this more recently: <a href="http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard</a>