[gentoo-user] The TALOS 2 Lite is now for sale - a very affordable OpenPOWER9 owner controlled workstation with open source firmware/hw init and documentation

In case anyone is interested I thought I would share.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Talos-2-Lite
https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/

They're really making strides for making high performance owner
controlled, open source firmware systems very affordable - now they are
much less than a proprietary single socket x86 system of equivilant
performance.

The regular dual socket TALOS 2 is already a good price for server
hardware in its class but this is even better for those who don't need
dual socket or many PCI-e slots (although you can always use a PCI-e PLX
switch based expansion system if you later want more)

I find it simply incredible that a brand new open source firmware
OpenPOWER9 system now costs less than the last and best open source
firmware owner controlled x86 motherboards (KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16) where
even buying used CPU's you would be spending more money than this to get
worse performance.