On Oct 25, 2018, at 19:27, Johnny Hughes <johnny@centos.org> wrote:

Let me be more clear .. I am not using the word hobby to mean anything
negative.  I could have also used embedded or non server or any number
of terms.

Those boards have lots of uses (in cars for driving their video screens
and bluetooth interfaces, embedded in several industrial systems, use on
ships and planes to do things on the electronics systems, etc. They can
be very important.

But that is just not really the focus of what aarch64 from CentOS is ..
it is for big iron servers with many gigs if RAM and many cores and
UEFI, etc.

Thank you for the clarification — that’s very helpful! Given that the ‘e’ in CentOS stands for ‘enterprise’, it’s also a very reasonable stance.

With regard the the terminology, I agree that ‘embedded’ would be a good term to use for boards like the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, etc. Those boards have a definite legitimate niche in professional computing, but one that is quite different from the classic ‘enterprise’ role.

Although — ‘embedded’ does start with an ‘e’ as well. Hmm…  :)

Cheers!


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