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Early access for risc v motherboard (store.deepcomputing.io)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Details for early access for deepcomputes risc v motherboard are out! Preoders start at $200 for a Mobo, coolernaster case, and various sundries. I'm glad it's at an affordable price point.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will Framework community start writing their own kernel+OS for this board?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Why? It works with both Ubuntu and Fedora, so making images of other distros should be pretty straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Corrected! Too early in the morning :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a riscy title it was

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Any external sharing of user experiences of the Early Access Program must be approved by DeepComputing and Framework before publication.

Yikes. I like Framework (have had one for a few years now) but this is not what I expect from them at all.

Once they drop this requirement and get to normal (removable) memory and storage I'd pay double this though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The memory isn't really doable with this SOC, but the storage is just an SD card slot on the motherboard. (I saw this and spoke to the CEO at this year's Ubuntu Summit.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this a Framework, or Deep Computing requirement?

It appears to be a Deep Computing produced board that matches the Framework specification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's a great point. I suppose Framework wasn't necessarily the one to push for this.

The fact that they are fine with holding approval authority implicates them in my mind. Though, I guess this is tougher when form factors are open source and all parts are very easy to find. DeepComputing can kind of make whatever they want (with whatever restrictions they want) and naturally be associated with Framework's brand.