There are a lot of distributions (and pieces of software) that care about compiling on ARM/other architectures thanks to various disparate things that exist --

There are a lot of distributions (and pieces of software) that care about compiling on ARM/other architectures thanks to various disparate things that exist -- raspberry pi's popularity, go/rust/and friends making cross compiling easier, etc. I've had a good experience with ODROID U2 (I personally think ODROID is my favorite SBC producer, so I'm biased, but most have some debian-based or similar distro that you can run and be productive things with. In the more concrete world, both ZFS and Ceph (Bluestore has checksuming now) run on ARM as far as I can tell: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Project%20and%20Community/FAQ.html#supported-architectures https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Project%20and%20Commu... https://developer.arm.com/solutions/infrastructure/developer-resources/workloads/ceph https://developer.arm.com/solutions/infrastructure/developer... Releasing a board meant for NASes that you can't run either of those on seems pretty short sighted for a company that's definitely not new to the SBC game.