Hi,
is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??
No thank you for Rapsberry PI
I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.
But it’s really hard to found a Linux distribution that support
- RPI (arm64)
- sysVinit 💖
- And that I like
Please don’t bring systemD in this discussion thanks.
( first row is for reference )
| brand | model | Price € | GPIO pair | CPU | Lan Ports | idle watt | Surface area cm² | Storage ports | WiFi / BT | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi | Pi 5 B (4GB) | 52 | 12 | Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz. | 1x 1GbE | 3 | 47 | SD | ||
| radxa[1] | X4 | 90 | 12 | N100 ▼ | 1x 2.5GbE | 18W ? | 47.6 | M.2[2], eMMC[2:1] | W6, BT5.2 | |
| HardKernel ? | ODROID H4 | 109 | ?? | N97 ▲ | 1x 2.5GbE | N.C -> 60W ? | 144 | eMMC, M.2*, SATA* | https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/ |
last update: 2025-08-31
I also hate systemd and use slackware and devuan, both of which works on aarch64. I believe Void also works but I never tried it.
USD $60 seems a bit low for an x86 SBC.
Have you tried MX Linux? It is based on Debian, they have a distro for RPI, and they have no systemd
Thanks @Frederic@beehaw.org Yes, Nice distro, but unfortunately their RPI respin use systemD 👎
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=85188
For me an SBC is really a PCB with components on it à la RPI, I haven’t see a lot of x86 like that except industrial one and they are $$$.
Have you thought of a beelink mini PC? This one is $149… https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Lake-N150-Upgraded-Computer-Business/dp/B0F3C6R47G
Thank you all for your input’s ! \
So I have created a table , that I’ll put in my first post.
Feel free to post update like
|brand|model|Price €|GPIO pair|CP|Lan Ports|idle watt|Surface area cm²|Storage ports| WiFi / BT|url|
|Raspberry Pi|Pi 5 B (4GB)|52|12|Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.|1x 1GbE|3|47|SD|||or even without the row header
