Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and FLOSS Weekly at Hackaday
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The Register UK ☛ The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
RVA23 is a long-overdue unification of the instruction set architecture (ISA) that effectively gives RISC-V the structure it needs to compete with giants like Arm and x86 - without the legacy bloat or licensing headaches.
This standard lays out a consistent set of ISA extensions that software developers can rely on across RISC-V hardware, which is no small feat considering RISC-V's open source DNA invites a potentially messy degree of fragmentation.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Raspberry Pi SSDs and SSD Kits on sale now
But the most popular use case for the PCI Express port on Raspberry Pi 5 is to attach an NVMe solid-state disk (SSD). SSDs are fast; faster even than our branded A2-class SD cards. If no-compromises performance is your goal, you’ll want to run Raspberry Pi OS from an SSD, and Raspberry Pi SSDs are the perfect choice.
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PC World ☛ Official Raspberry Pi M.2 SSD and adapter bundle now available
If you want more storage space than that, you can add a standard M.2 drive with a “hat” board. But now you don’t need to shop around that — the official Raspberry Pi shop is now selling compatible SSDs and the hardware needed to use them.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Raspberry Pi Launch Own-Brand SSDs Priced From $30
One of the best things about the Raspberry Pi 5 (other than the performance boost over its predecessor) is how much simpler it is to add an SSD. And if you’re running a full desktop OS like Ubuntu you should use an SSD: startup times are blazingly fast, and the I/O performance blows even top-end SD cards out of the water (so to speak – you shouldn’t put SD cards in water). But finding the right NVMe SSD can be a mission.
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 806: Manyfold — The Dopamine Of Open Source
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted 3D print digital asset manager that’s on the Fediverse! Does it do live renders? Does it slice? Listen to find out!