I think it looks cool, I’m a big fan of RISC and FPGAs (but only when I have an IP Core that can speed up my workflow) and I like how it’s open source friendly with coreboot out of the box, but I just can’t find much of a use for it. What kind of Workstation stuff really works well on Linux and a 100% free software stack? (because you’re not getting closed source professional software recompiled for PowerPC)
Could @wendell shed a little light on this? Because I’m not seeing the niche. The only Workstation use I could think of would be a scenario where Kdenlive doesn’t suck (of which is almost there) and supports h265 encoding via the FPGA. Everything else like DAWs aren’t there (especially with commercial VSTs not even working in x86 Linux and let alone PowerPC) and Gimp still sucking. So, there’s Blender, but Blender can work on anything and I don’t know what the FPGA would accelerate in Blender.