I’m actually really delighted with the R01. I expected it to be fun, but it’s very usable and runs super cool and it’s kind of astonishing how well-supported the chip is: everything compiles cleanly, no strange crashes. I was able to get Slackware installed and it works great for daily use.
A RISC-V board with a little more RAM and a few more cores would be an amazing addition for the DevTerm and the uConsole.