Author here! Currently taking requests for follow-ups you'd like to see for this budding blog where we will stand up cloud together. (Including you Intel N-series diehards, if you flame hard enough I might write something for you too ;) Seriously though I think both platforms have their use-cases. Here we get more cores per buck and less power per node)
Kudos for being the author of one of the very few homelab-related posts on HN that does not boil down to just a poor use of a raspberry pi.
I would like to see projects with more, and specifically more diverse and open-source friendly SoCs, based on Allwinner for lower cost stuff (Olimex-produced SBCs), Mediatek for higher price/performance (banana pi, and especially for the WiFi chipsets, it's about time we stopped with the closed Broadcom stuff)
Had similar stability issues on a related board - orange pi 5 plus. Specifically wouldn’t reliably come back up on soft reboot
Also there is apparently an arm port of proximity but haven’t tried it
Is proximity another Virtualization tool? A quick search didn't come up with anything, that's why I'm asking.
So far have not seen stability issues on the mentioned 6.12 current-rockckip-rk3588 kernel but time will tell!
Hmm. Will give that a go in next install.
Other issue I hit was ssh dropping out (but other ports staying online). Think that may be a software bug though
Or buy a RPI where you get software that actually works and is supported.
On software side, RPi (or intel N100 for that matter) is the winner but take a look at RK3588 datasheet [1] and tell me of an Arm or x86 SBC that tops what it offers. It even comes with a NPU lol
[1]: https://www.rock-chips.com/uploads/pdf/2022.8.26/192/RK3588%...
With 32G RAM? Besides, manufacturer diversity is a good thing. "Just buy X" comments need to die.
Good work. Probably still a bit precarious for me to try at the moment but the idea of low power SBCs with virt capabilities is intriguing as I like to run very thin VMs to encapsulate a single small application.