Stefan would you be so kind and would you missing information from this discussion that helped you to https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi5 RPi5 popularity with openSUSE is on a rise and this could significantly help others.
Thank you! On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM Stefan Seyfried <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Torsten, > > Am 10.12.25 um 13:55 schrieb Torsten Duwe: > > > Knowing you and knowing the RPi5, I strongly suggest you have a look at > > alternate > > platforms; my personal favourites are rk3588 based; YMMV. > > > > The Pi5 NVME IF has only a single lane, which only works reliable at Gen2 > > speed. > > To compare, the Rock5B I'm currently typing to has a quad-lane Gen3. The > > Rock 5B+ > > splits that into 2x2 Gen3 if you prefer. There are some boards with 2.5Gb > > Ether, > > if you want to extend into NFS. The quad-core CPU is not bad, but the > > current state > > seems to be to add at least 4 more "little" cores, if not another 4 > > medium-sized ones. > > So long story short: the Pi5 might not be the best choice starting already > > with the > > hardware, let alone the documentation. > > I am biased here. > > Just last week, i put a raspi os on my first Raspberry Pi Model B, to > use my RaspyRFM module for a POC decoding my wmbus watermeter. > > What do I want to convey with this nice story? > With a Raspberry Pi I can, more than 10 years after it was initially > sold, download a up-to-date OS image *from the original vendor* and use it. > > All other ARM board vendors from boards I have, provide, if at all, a > badly hacked together debian or ubuntu image with a frankenstein'd > Kernel where you are lucky to find sources at all. You can download this > image from some crazy google drive account or a dropbox link which might > be available tomorrow -- or not. > > Maybe this situation has changed, and 10 years from now I will be able > to tell. Today, I continue to just use what worked well for me and > that's Raspberry Pies. I'm too old to waste time with the cheap SOC of > the day and I'd rather trade some performance for ease of use and > hassle-free operations :-D > > Oh, just checked and found that the Rock5 would be significantly more > expensive than the Raspi500+ I just ordered, so remove the "cheap" in > the last sentence ;) > > My obsworkers have been running on a RPi400 and two RPi4B/8GB, all with > USB-Connected SSDs, so replacing the 400 with the 500+ will be a welcome > improvement, even if theoretically there would be more performant > options available. > > Best regards, and thanks for your concerns, but I prefer to not follow > your suggestion :-) > > Stefan > > (And yes, I know, the raspberry pi also needs frankenstein kernel hacks, > the first model until today does not run right with a mainline kernel, > this is why I use raspi os on it, but at least I can get a raspi os for > it after > 10 years). > -- > Stefan Seyfried > > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over > public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- Best regards Luboš Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager
