ARM is a dead end

[Simone Caronni]

On 15 June 2012 01:57, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> So I would urge Fedora not to waste our time on a low-end architecture
> filling a temporary niche which will become obsolete as demand for
> performance increases. We should rather support only one primary
> architecture (x86, i.e.: x86_64, and legacy i686 as long as there's a need
> for it) and support it well, as we have done since we finally got rid of the
> legacy PPC burden. Niche architectures are exactly what secondary
> architectures are for.

Servers are moving to ARM as well, HP and Dell for example:

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/b/weblog/archive/2012/06/01/better-density-less-power-consumption-at-heart-of-dell-s-arm-based-ecosystem-building-program.aspx

We could guess RHEL 7 will build on the ARM development in Fedora.

And I personally would really like to run something that's not x86.

Regards,
--Simone


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