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Arm deserve all that's coming to them. A generation ago, their forerunners - Acorn - were happy to take, use and make a profit from the work of American universities, yet when Berk…

On RISC-V? Yes... Well sort of. There are people working on ports of Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse (I think) and I've seen some version of BSD working on SiFive's boards. Debian is s…

Actually... What they did, ten years ago, was build a much better Computer Engineering course!

Sure, RISC-V designs can be open or not... And of course there's always the cost of fabbing. There're already designs freely available to use though, either as they are, or to buil…

I'm really excited, to the point of distraction by the RISC-V ISA. Some people say that there's nothing new in it, but to my mind, they're missing the point : the Berkeley Four too…

If you'd really like to try Ubuntu, your best option for now might be to get hold of a cheap, second hand Nexus. Ubuntu are about to change the OS to 64bit Core and Snap, and there…

Actually, I think the USP for Ubuntu Phone is not the saturated smartphone market we now have, but the truly mobile computer in your pocket market that both Canonical & Micro$oft a…