we do know we have italian companies cooperating to make all-EU, Open Source Hardware computers, right?
this is worth checking out.
the models i found are in the Sam440* and Sam460* lines. made by ACube systems for the Power9 architecture. they've made releases of schematics and upon emailing respond to questions about open-source
only reason i find they're less known is because they're absolute geeks, the entire company uses old forums to announce things and have outdated looking website with no SEO. it's Amiga geeks making computers that are passively cooled and can run Linux, in the EU, open hardware - schematics published.
various links
https://shop.acube-systems.biz/ their shop webpage design is confusing and they have already sold the Sam460LE model (LE is for Limited Edition) but hey email and the human who makes it will reply, opening shop for more orders.
https://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=756 their webpage, again they need help with design layout and organizing their information IMO
https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=75615.0 one such open hardware announcement, in as mentioned a forum without SEO. help me find more
https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de%3Amodels%3Asam440ep a wiki entry on a computer model in the Sam440* line. it's only in german, help me find more wikis and info
let's not give up on competent nerds making open hardware in the EU (Linux compatible!) just because they market themselves as (badly) as only nerds can do!
I have a SAM440EP. It can run AmigaOS 4.1 and some flavour of Linux, but I forget which as I haven't run that on it for years.
The primary target OS for these is AmigaOS 4.
wow you have one! i for one would be very glad to hear you shed some clarity on this line of computers, how well Linux operates on them, how much it cost you
what made you buy the Sam440EP?
When did you and at what price?
You mention it's primary use is AmigaOS: what draws you to AmigaOS? As many I have no experience or knowledge of the market for AmigaOSes
I think I actually won it in a mini competition. I had an AmigaOne XE previously (also ran Linux but the hardware had bugs so it was quite flaky). I've had it since ~2018. Linux is (or was) installed but I don't think I ever used it much, so don't want to comment. The distro I have will be very out of date now.
I like AmigaOS but can't really recommend it to people who don't know the Amiga. There's not an awful lot of software support. If you want to try it though, it's a fast, light, preemptively multitasking OS. OS4 is a PPC-native version which will also run old software (as long as it doesn't hit the hardware directly) through a built-in 68k emulator.