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I've been banging on that drum for years, and the first time I posted on the Haiku forums people said it was proprietary and wasn't going anywhere, and that RIS
by rcarmo 4y ago
I've been banging on that drum for years, and the first time I posted on the Haiku forums people said it was proprietary and wasn't going anywhere, and that RISC-V would be a better priority.
Fast forward some five or six years and there are literally _hundreds_ of ARM SBCs out there that could be running Haiku instead of hacked Debian.
- qwerty456127 4y agoI would answer them Raspberry Pi is the only standardized-config, also fairly widespread and reasonably affordable computer. Standardized config is a must for a custom OS (so it is reasonably easy to fully support the hardware), price is among things which killed Be, vibrant community of geeky enthusiasts of all levels is a great bonus. RISC-V doesn't have any of these, it hardly even exists.
- rcarmo 4y agoThis was a few years back, and yes, it was already obvious it was getting mass produced and taking off. They just didn’t care up until the 3B+ came out.