On Oct 25, 2018, at 19:27, Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. | | -- Leonard Brandwein | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20181026/a37d0f88/attachment-0006.html>