Well, those low-cost devices are typically:
* usable only for development/hacking/toying around, due to their form
factor (bare board), peripherals and/or (lack of) computing power,
Certainly not, there are many ARM devices with processors that are well over
the 2 GHz clock mark, have several gigabytes of RAM and lots of other goodies
for under $100 USD. And they're certainly not just "bare boards", but full
products. Just the boards are even less!
* extremely slow at everything including building packages (just
lo> ok at
how slow the relatively fast Koji ARM builders are; low-cost devices are a
lot worse than that),
They're not speed demons, but they're certainly fast.
* so bare that you have to spend a multiple of the purchase price of
the
device to add needed development equipment (RAM, storage, I/O
peripherals, etc.),
I don't know what you're referring to here, but if it's the ARM device I
mentioned, see my first response..
so I am not convinced that they are really useful targets for
developers.
Installing Fedora on an ARM device is a great first step into alternative
architectures, and could even be a gateway to embedded system development.
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