Re: [Astlinux-users] [Astlinux-devel] Announcing AstLinux Release: 1.5.10

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Michael,

We have no plans on supporting ARM hardware.  There are single NIC x86_64 boxes [1] that cost about the same (or less) than Raspberry Pi systems (board, case, power, etc.).

As for the old Qotom J1900 box, while it works, there are a lot of newer N100 boxes about the same price.  Additionally with 1.5.10, NVMe is supported, so that opens up more bare metal box choices.

Lonnie

[1] https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:board_bmax_b1_plus



> On Apr 30, 2025, at 6:28 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:

> Thanks Lonnie

>  So could it be possible to support some ARM hardware in the future? This would be quite interesting e.g. Rasberry Pi?
>  Regards
> Michael Knill
>  
> 
> On Apr 30, 2025, at 5:23 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:

> Hi Lonnie
>  Some additional interesting hardware here.
> We are looking at putting Astlinux back on hardware again for our Telephony Gateway’s because its cost effective, we have already established the management infrastructure and its so darn reliable (so many issues with OpenWRT based systems).
>  We are looking at using the Qotom Q190S-S01 (https://www.qotom.net/product/33.html) which I assume will be fine as its very similar to the Q190G4N/U?
> I can get this box shipped and ready to go for around $140 USD which is pretty good. Still wish we could use an APU though as they were incredibly reliable ☹
>   Regards
> Michael Knill