10-20-2020, 08:41 PM
(10-20-2020, 07:56 PM)KNERD Wrote: They have also said very little about the device, including specifications, pricing, and when available. In this case of a device, they are not generating very much excitement . They did say there is no LINUX available to run on it. Then what did they run to even see if it functions?
I can see companies using this who are complaining about prices of Amazon's AWS.
I admit to guesstimating on pricing (perhaps too optimistically, in honesty). Downloads (including a bootable Linux image, apparently?) and specs are in the wiki. The October 2020 Community Update contains a bit more information, including the chicken-and-egg problem I created this thread about.
But while there's a call to get interested developers on board, there's a lot of silence as to what these developers are desired to usefully do. The SOEdge has specialized hardware in the form of the NPU, so "lol i just got a random distro to run" isn't really where I see this module landing. It's not really something I see as being very interesting for the sorts who would consider an RPi for the task first.
So that leaves the questions: where do they intend to target the sales; and, where do those interested in using it expect to find value?
Just bootstrapping mainstream distros on new hardware is relatively easy (and relatively boring) these days. Using the platform's unique features is potentially more challenging and more fulfilling, both. But I don't see anyone doing that work unless they know it's not going to immediately stagnate because no one wants what they did.
And you mentioned AWS. Which AWS offerings do you see this as being interesting to replace?