[Arm-netbook] developer advantages of EOMA68

[Nick Hardiman]

Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys?

When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or is that unfair?

For starters, I’m thinking:

You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a lot of laptop-carrying people.

It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and unikernels.

I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and so on.

What am I missing?




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