On 30/10/18 20:06, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > > On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >>>> POWER >>>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the >>>> hardware >>>> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)! >>> Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time. The fastest >>> supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL. >> What I meant is that POWER could become a competitor for Intel/AMD based >> servers. We're now running AMD EPYC servers with 64Cores/128Threads >> and we >> didn't find any POWER system which could compete in this area. >> >> Also, looking at TOP500 list there are not so many POWER systems >> anymore. >> IBM could change this now. >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > Yeah.....I guess that's one way to look at it. > > My biggest worry? Is I've placed so much time and effort "getting to > know" Fedora and its intricacies, idiosyncrasies, its ins and > outs...dealt with ridicule on this very same list when I first > started, have "cut my teeth" on learning VERY hard lessons about > certain syntax in the Terminal and what NOT to type.......only to have > that all "taken" away from me at the whim of IBM. It just seems > unfair. I'm hoping like H3LL that the developers @ Fedora are > seriously thinking about forking "Just In Case"!? I mean they could > still use the .RPM extensions, and possibly even still pull their code > from RHEL, but at least they would be autonomous and wouldn't have to > rely on IBM's good will in order to keep on churning out what....to > me...is the best Linux distro on the planet! As I write this....I'm > eyeballing the spare ThinkPad T-410 that I've neglected since I have > Fedora running on a Dell XPS, and I'm thinking its time to get "back > to my roots" and to find a distro I can put on that device and run > without concern....I've heard some decent things about this "Pop-OS" > which comes with System76's hardware. Maybe I'll give that a > spin......then like I had said before...there's always Debian plain > vanilla...with maybe MATE or Cinnamon?.....or else its going to have > to be where I buckle down and finally learn all there is to know about > LFS and Arch Linux and then move on to one of those...(God!.....at > 47!?....its like how can I POSSIBLY start over again!?...) and THIS is > the kind of turmoil that ensues when a corporation buys a fully > functioning open course company! > wow, I am just 62 and looking forward to the next round of CentOS - version 8 coming up? - must be due soon .... Love learning new stuff, it never gets old (pun intended). sorry for the noise, but couldn't resist, must be the age .... > > > EGO II > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos