S01E03: Quartzy Keyboards

In the third episode of the PineTalk, Ezra and Peter discuss the PINE64 February Community Update and answer community questions about Sxmo, RISC-V, and ARM Workstations.

In the third episode of PineTalk, Ezra and Peter discuss the PINE64 February Community Update and answer community questions about Sxmo, RISC-V, and ARM Workstations.

What have we been up to lately?

• Ezra:
  • has a new personal website: elatronion.com
• Peter:
  • made a video on Manjaro Daily Dev builds: PeerTube, Odysee, YouTube,
  • worked on LINMOBapps (for reference: KDE Apps have working appstream:// links)

Topics

PINE64 Community News

• February Community Update
  • Read it in its full beauty,
  • or watch PizzaLovingNerds’ great video on Odysee, Tilvids, or YouTube.
• Quartz64: (Rockchip RK3566, up to 8GB RAM, lots of options to connect storage, displays and other hardware)
  • runs really cool and faster than the PINE A64 (Allwinner A64) and ROCK64 (Rockchip RK3328) it’s eventually superseding
  • MakeUseOf: Pine64 Announces a Native E-ink Single Board Computer
• RISC-V SBC with two RISC-V System-on-a-Chip (for less than 15 USD)
  • Allwinner XuanTie C906-based SBC: solid I/O, including USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, no 3D accelerator = entry-level Linux-capable RISC-V platform
    • CNX Software: XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12+ Linux SBC’s
    • CNX Software: RISC-V Bases and Extensions Explained.
  • 2nd SoC for networking: Bouffalo BL602 WiFi-BLE
    • LEE Lup Yuen: The RISC-V BL602 Book
• PinePhone
  • Keyboard accessory (includes 6000 mAh battery)
  • Manjaro Plasma Mobile as new default OS for the post-Community Edition PinePhone.

Your feedback and questions:

• Logenkain: What do you think about Sxmo?
  • Related: Linux Smartphones: Sxmo 1.3.0 brings usability, performance improvements to this simple, geeky Linux phone UI.
• Mark: How far off is a #riscv PinePhone? 😉
  • Related: Android on RISC-V
• Liam: What do you think, should PINE64 start making workstations?
  • Avantec Workstations
  • SolidRun HoneyComb LX2 Workstation
  • Risc-V Desktop: SiFive: HiFive Unmatched

Remember: This is a community podcast, we need your questions, ideas to make this work! Also, please leave feedback on what we should do better!

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