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They (Phoronix) are benchmarking the RP5 against an Orange Pi 5. There is also an Orange Pi 5 Plus, which adds a ton of stuff. If you don't need the Raspberry

They (Phoronix) are benchmarking the RP5 against an Orange Pi 5. There is also an Orange Pi 5 Plus, which adds a ton of stuff. If you don't need the Raspberry Pi specifically for some reason, the Orange Pi Plus is faster and has way more features, and to me is very interesting for a lot of use cases. Plus you can buy them without fighting with scalpers or being limited to buying 1. http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-plus.html http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro... https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805557178947.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805557178947.html

vardump 3y ago
Two words: software support.
- ltbarcly3 3y ago
  What software are you concerned about? I'm running Debian and I can apt-install anything in the arm repositories, which is basically everything. Neither the RP5 nor the rk3588 used on the Orange Pi have everything supported in mainline kernels, but in a year or so both probably will.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    OS support, yes; the ARM ecosystem is overall a trash fire in terms of being able to use mainline Linux. Even Pis don't actually have a good track record with actual mainline Linux, but they're popular enough that their downstream patches are actually maintained so you can keep using current kernels; most boards get whatever buggy kernel the vendor drops when it ships and then nothing. Now AIUI Orange Pis do actually have a decent track record for upstream kernel support? So that might be fine in this case, but I deeply sympathize with people not wanting to figure it out and just going with the name brand that they know will get supported.
    - forty 3y ago
      I have one orange pi board where I messed a bit with the OS/kernel. I think the kernel patches where copy of a competitor similar board with the same SoC (if I remember correctly a friendlyelec board) where the fact that it was copy pasting showed in places where they forgot to replace the name of the board...
      - ltbarcly3 3y ago
        https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patche... I'm hopeful the effort to get the rk3588 fully supported in the kernel will be successful. I think you can already get it working with a vanilla kernel but you lose hdmi. Far from ideal but great progress so far.

vardump 3y ago

Two words: software support.

ltbarcly3 3y ago
What software are you concerned about? I'm running Debian and I can apt-install anything in the arm repositories, which is basically everything. Neither the RP5 nor the rk3588 used on the Orange Pi have everything supported in mainline kernels, but in a year or so both probably will.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  OS support, yes; the ARM ecosystem is overall a trash fire in terms of being able to use mainline Linux. Even Pis don't actually have a good track record with actual mainline Linux, but they're popular enough that their downstream patches are actually maintained so you can keep using current kernels; most boards get whatever buggy kernel the vendor drops when it ships and then nothing. Now AIUI Orange Pis do actually have a decent track record for upstream kernel support? So that might be fine in this case, but I deeply sympathize with people not wanting to figure it out and just going with the name brand that they know will get supported.
  - forty 3y ago
    I have one orange pi board where I messed a bit with the OS/kernel. I think the kernel patches where copy of a competitor similar board with the same SoC (if I remember correctly a friendlyelec board) where the fact that it was copy pasting showed in places where they forgot to replace the name of the board...
    - ltbarcly3 3y ago
      https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patche... I'm hopeful the effort to get the rk3588 fully supported in the kernel will be successful. I think you can already get it working with a vanilla kernel but you lose hdmi. Far from ideal but great progress so far.