[makomk]

It's hard to get graphics working, but on the other hand you can actually boot upstream Linux in headless mode on the older Allwinner boards right now. Debian Jessie even officially supports the older ones whereas they're unlikely to ever add support for the Raspberry Pi because it requires a binary blob to even boot.

Unfortunately, this is using Allwinner's new A64 chip and I don't think the unofficial sunxi community that provides open source support for their hardware has even looked at supporting that chip yet. Also, whether support materializes depends heavily on how much the companies that are selling boards based on it care about open source, and well...