Bao is a lightweight embedded hypervisor that statically partitions CPUs, memory and devices to isolate Linux and real-time workloads.
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Tag: RISC-V
openRuyi – Linux Distribution for RISC-V
openRuyi is an open source Linux distribution, initiated and long-term maintained by Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine
RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025
I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.
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Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
I’ll see how the Orange Pi R2S compares to a few other single board computers and mini PCs which cost considerably more.
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC
In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distro much snappier on the RV2.
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program
Options for installing software are a bit more limited with the RV2 compared with ARM-based single board computers. Let’s build a piece of open source software.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer
The Orange Pi R2S features a RISC-V processor, four wired network ports (two 2.5G ethernet ports and two 1G ethernet ports).
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: orangepi-config
My RV2 board is running Ubuntu 24.04. Included is a configuration tool called orangepi-config. Let’s see what it offers.
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Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to some other computers.
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi RV2 and compare it to some other computers.
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Benchmarking the Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer
In this article I benchmark the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to other single board computers as well as an N100 Mini PC.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max and Orange Pi RV2
I benchmark the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max, Orange Pi RV2 against a Raspberry Pi 5 and a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC.
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Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction
The Banana Pi BPI-F3 is an industrial grade RISC-V development board, designed with the SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V chip.
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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction
The Orange Pi RV2 is a low cost RISC-V single board computer designed to be an affordable option to explore RISC-V technology.
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SiFive: HiFive Unleashed Development Board – First Linux-capable RISC-V single board computer
SiFive has announced their HiFive Unleashed, the first Linux RISC-V developer board.
RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open source ISA that is not subject to patents, and is available under the BSD license.
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