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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by joezydeco on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:15AM (#28326812)
And doesn't need to boot off of SD cards.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by jhgb on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:23PM (#28331953)
Everything boots off of something. Even netboot needs firmware which is on some kind of flash memory anyway.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by joezydeco on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#28338653)
Some things are more reliable and fail safe than others. SD would not rank high on that list and that's not even talking about the cheap mechanical connector involved.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:36AM (#28327629)
And doesn't keep important files on SD cards...
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