On 10/25/18 7:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 10/25/2018 05:57 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 10/25/18 6:30 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
One thing to keep in mind is our armhfp distro is designed for the hobby type boards .. BUT our aarch64 distro is designed to run on large 64bit UEFI arm servers, but hobby boards that don't follow the UEFI standard and have limited RAM (that board as 3GB), etc.
In the for-what-it-is-worth column,,,,
I am beginning to see that at least the odroid HC1 is targeted beyond the hobby board.
And Itron has a board that they market to partners for smartgrid applications.
https://www.itron.com/na/partners/developer/products/boards
But I dropped working with my colleagues at Itron over a year ago.
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.
Johnny,
I have been a long time Centos user. Like since its predecessor (whitehat? whitebox? So long ago) folded.
When I was RIFed from Verizon the end of '14, I took a serious look at what I could assemble, sell, support, and live off from. But I really could not monetize (term I had to live with while with Verizon) nor effectively build a box to support. So I got some consulting contracts to keep me solvent and plugged along.
Now I am approaching 'retirement age' (70 in 2 years), I am seeing the potential here to build, sell, and support something that will supplement my Soc income. I allocate 1/4 my time to it and am looking forward to having something I can live from.
I am really appreciative of all the work you and others do to build the pieces that I hope to make into something marketable. With a sticker: "Centos inside"!
Or maybe it will just be a retirement 'hobby'. Time will tell.