With shipping and tax the One cost me £94.
The Flint 2 has been on sale for £115.51 twice in the last couple of months, 23% more, so not a huge price difference.
My takeaway from this is that the existence of RISCVuzz will make future verification much easier. Just run your prototype (or even an emulation of it) against a known good array of implementations.
Debian support for RISC-V is presently only in Sid (testing release). So not production ready.
When I ask people what it will take to get RISC-V into stable releases the answer is always ‘better access to test hardware’. Hopefully this is a step along the way.
I haven't tried it -- I installed the VF2 Debian fork in April 2023 or so, then switched to SID, and I'm still on that. I think Ubuntu 24.10 will have a lot better support; mainline support for the VF2/JH7110 is almost complete for 6.6: https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan