[Arm-dev] CentOS 8 for armv7hl

Mon Nov 11 15:49:59 UTC 2019
Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>

El 7/11/19 a las 23:43, Ron Wheeler escribió:
> Would CentOS be a good and well supported headless 64 bit OS for the 
> Raspberry Pi4?
Short answer is no. Longer answer is this, we still don't have support 
for rpi in 64 bit mode, it is in my to-do list, but not much progress 
for now.
I'll let you know in a few days
>
> I use Centos7 for everything else and am planning of transitioning 
> from existing servers to blade servers based on the Pi4 for supporting 
> microservice-based applications (Spring, Netflix, Google as well as 
> software development (Nexus, gitlab&SVN, Postfix, DHCP, Firewalld, etc.).
>
> I am old enough to believe that 4Gb RAM on a current-generation CPU 
> can run a whole company and if you have 20 such units working 
> together, you have a lot of power.
> It is awfully nice to think that if one fails, you just slap in 
> another Pi4 for practically nothing rather than replacing a powerful 
> server for 25 times the price.
>
> I am looking at the $55 Pis as alternatives to virtual machines but 
> might still want to play with Cloudstack to break up the Pis into 
> smaller virtual machines if $55 becomes a lot to pay for a real one!
>
>
> I would love to take advantage of the active release of security 
> updates that we enjoy in CentOS but if there is insufficient support 
> for 64 bit ARM, that is a show stopper.
>
> Would Raspbien be a better choice?
> It is obviously well supported on the Pi but comes with a lot of stuff 
> that is of no use to me in a microservices/corporate server 
> environment and means a lot of conversion of my thinking and existing 
> processes.
>
> Ron
>
> On 2019-11-07 8:14 a.m., Andreas Reschke wrote:
>> Am 23.10.19 um 18:32 schrieb Brian Stinson:
>>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, at 04:17, Andreas Reschke wrote:
>>>> Hello together,
>>>>
>>>> is there any plan or update for CentOS 8 for armv7hl? I've running 4
>>>> Odroid HC1 with CentOS as  server for mail, web, dns.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
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>>> Yes! In fact, for the record, Pablo had CentOS 8 Altarch for Armhfp 
>>> builds done before large chunks of the primary architectures.
>>>
>>> The delays in composing this for general consumption are all on me. 
>>> Stay tuned here for announcements and such.
>>>
>>> --Brian
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>> @ Pablo: any update on this topic?
>>
>> Greetings
>> Andreas
>>
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