Re:Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
by berlinquin on Saturday January 22, 2022 @03:48PM
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Unrelated, but thank you for your blog! I check in occasionally, mostly looking for a reason to justify buying one of the Raptor machines at work. I really enjoy the articles on qemu/virtualization.
Re:Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
by classichasclass on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:00PM
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Hey, thanks! Very kind of you to say.
It shouldn't be a privilege to own a fully user-auditable computer. Cost continues to be a problem, which is why I hope Microwatt gets into more things. But the cost is primarily from the motherboard, which has no economies of scale (CPU prices are actually fairly competitive), and other than the processor everything else is off-the-shelf. Fedora, Void and FreeBSD work well in my personal experience, and there are other choices.