Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

From	Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian
Date	2023-03-21 01:40 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 05:23:09PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:

>> It seems the only serious contenders, available new, with a future,
>> would be Power and ARM?

> Any thoughts on RISC-V?

Not a released Debian architecture/port, which spells trouble for
"just using it". Is it on good path to becoming one? It got
LibreOffice support in upstream in ... 2022, so quite recently.

https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#ASIC_implementations.2C_i.e._.22real.22_CPU_chips
lists only "small" SoC systems , not something that looks like I would
like to compile something the size of LibreOffice on. In that list the
highest memory supported seems to be 8GB... Nowadays software seems to
be _very_ memory hungry, my desktop isn't running anything particular
(just X11, XFCE, terminals, mutt, emacs, firefox, instant messenging
stuff, nextcloud desktop) and... "free -m" says 10437 used (I
understand that's _without_ buffers and cache), Firefox clearly takes
at least 2GB if not 3B (main process 1GB RES in top and then many
"Isolate Web Content" processes taking 100MB to 340MB, they add up!),
Telegram has RES of 600MB plus 465MB swapped (!!!), etc.

That 8GB memory board has only one HDMI output, not two.

Am I missing any hardware that would be interesting?

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good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2023-03-21 00:20 +0100
  Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-03-21 00:30 +0100
    Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2023-03-21 01:40 +0100
      Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-21 03:10 +0100
        Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running  Debian) Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-03-21 03:30 +0100
        Re: Memory use (was: good freedom-respecting computer for running  Debian) Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-03-21 03:30 +0100
  Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-21 02:40 +0100
    Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-21 03:00 +0100
      Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Ramces Tampo-og Red <lists-16494@citadel.tokyo> - 2023-03-21 07:20 +0100
    Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2023-03-21 09:10 +0100
      Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-21 14:40 +0100
  Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2023-03-21 10:20 +0100
    Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2023-03-22 21:10 +0100
  Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2023-03-22 11:20 +0100
    Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2023-03-22 20:10 +0100
      Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2023-03-22 20:40 +0100
      Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2023-03-23 00:10 +0100
        Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-23 05:10 +0100
          Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-03-23 05:40 +0100
        Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2023-03-23 11:40 +0100

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