Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Sunday 28 October 2018 16:57:42 andre_debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > www.engadget.com/2018/10/28/ibm-buys-red-hat/ > > > > Is it a good new ? > > Can this new make reviving Linux in the public market, > > or only in the professional cloud market ? > > > > André > > > Best question of the year. > > Next best is what to become of amanda? Amanda was just bought by BETSOL, > whomever they might be, and they've sent one of their folks to the > amanda list to quell the talk of a fork. But so far all we've seen is > talk, and the users, including me who has been using it for nearly 20 > years, are getting nervous. They haven't even put the lead maintainer on > their payroll, and the undertones are rising in volume. > > I suppose at some point, debian will be an acquisition target as the > commercial folks see it as something they can do a Red Hat with when Red > Hat spun the Fedora as a free red hat, but they as expected used the > fedora users as lab rats, trying new ways that often didn't work all > that well. So I gave them feedback until I was tired of a half broken > system all the time, and in about 2006 LinuxCNC was made as a respin of > Ubuntu, but that petered out and went to debian in about 2012. Where it > still is, while our developers are busting butt trying to get the > performance needed out rt-prempt patches for the later 64 bit kernels, > which are in fact sloths compared to the 32 bit patched versions in the > 3.2.x releases. Much research at restoring that has been done, but its > not yet been good enough to be accepted into mainline. > > Steven R. has been a frequent contributer to the linux-rt list for quite > a while, and here is his off the cuff talk on it from a couple days > back, basically issueing you can and you cant's to the rest of the > developers as they code up new pieces for the kernel: > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxJm-Ujipcg> > > There are some folks from red hat there on that list too. > > Make of it what you can. IBM, like Dell, has over the last 2 decades made > some quality hardware. So I expect the cash infusion may allow some of > the oldtimers in North Carolina to retire, and new blood will be brought > on board, not necessarily from the ranks. What effect, good or bad, that > will have remains to be seen. Watching the stock market for fresh RHAT > activity might be educational. Hi Gene! I'm relieved that I'm nit the only one struggling with linux-rt - my latency numbers are horrible, no matter what hardware I use. But at least I managed to get linuxcnc + preempt-rt + trinity working on my raspberrypi3+. If you are interested, I can upload a rpi image for testing :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
