-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2018-01-08 at 05:44 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/01/18 01:38 PM, Markus Koßmann wrote:
There is the OpenRisc Project ( https://openrisc.io/) .
This, and other links such as those I mentioned in a previous email, are very frustrating. Flashbacks to Swift and Gulliver: all about designs and simulations, but where can I get the real silicon and real microATX mobo for my desktop PC running Linux?
At some point the intellectual exercises become self-indulgent and unproductive. (There's a word beginning with 'M' that describes that when its associated with sex, but I think that's a trivial point.)
Read: standardization; commercialism, consumerism. Right now we have a wave of "I hate Intel" going on and there's a wonderful marketing opportunity for Linux provided its not on Intel/AMD but *IS* packaged like a regular desktop/mobo and supported the way Ubuntu/Suse/Redhat... are with repositories, office, games ... and a neat GUI admin tool like YAST.
The window of opportunity is closing. A month from not many people will be saying "Oh, I have that patched" and "oh, I haven't been affected...". There won't be the interest or incentive.
Just watch this list; a month from not what will we be discussing? A month from not what will the media be discussing?
It needs big players to build silicon. Like those having huge computer farms that now run slower, so that they have to buy more hardware to cope. Are they pushing for a new processor design? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpTec4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XKRgCgksC9RG5S9sMaGbnIJyqCjSoW /esAoI+tz2GUC5UKvC/k8+W3mvDWesKh =+aQp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----