[kibwen]

> Nobody is compiling an entire Linux distro on something like a Raspberry Pi 3.

The RISC-V mainboard for the Framework is 4-core 1.5 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. That's leagues better than the hardware that people were compiling Linux on in the 90s and early 2000s.

[tmtvl]

Unfortunately software has gotten so much worse that hardware improvements simply can't keep up. That's also why Linux doesn't enable certain mitigations by default.

[CamouflagedKiwi]

Yes, but the Linux they were compiling on in the 90s was a lot smaller & simpler than the Linux they would compile now.

[mananaysiempre]

The U74-MC on that board’s JH7110 SoC is two 64-bit dual-issue cores at 1.5 GHz, so it’s fair to compare it with the four 64-bit dual-issue cores at 1.2 or 1.4 GHz on the RPi3’s Cortex-A53, or for that matter with something like a 1.0 to 1.4 GHz dual-socket Pentium III system from the early oughts (which would use the P6 32-bit dual-issue microarchitecture from the Pentium Pro).

[szundi]

Yeah but it is 2025 and adoption means using it