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Well, |
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Just as research was propelling me out of the closet, to |
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proclaim that embedded (linux) systems are to become the backbone |
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of the new clouds and clusters, somebody beat me to the punchline. |
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Linaro, which is pretty much the largest collection of deep pocketed |
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folks in the embedded (arm64) game, has just announced debian and centos |
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versions of embedded Linaro for the cloud [1]. They have a large cache |
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of ported codes including but not limited to cephfs. |
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That makes sense why docker, currently the commercial leader in containers, |
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has subsumed Alpine Linux and it's OpenRC + Eudev platform for speed of |
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deployment and HPC performance advantages. [2] Also, systemd issues abound |
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in the cloud/cluster world. OpenRC's pathway to codes interfaced directly to |
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cgroups is proving to be quite the performance advantage, particularly for |
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specifically tuned clusters. |
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Still, since gentoo supports both OpenRC and Systemd, I'm just not sure why |
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somebody is not promoting gentoo as the best distro reference system for the |
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cloud-of-Things and Hi-Performance-Clusters. Since I have been digging |
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deeply into these and other related issues, Gentoo is everywhere, but just |
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not getting the public recognition it deserves as a distro and cloud/cluster |
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enabler. Perhaps all commercial vendors are actually scared of the power of |
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the Gentoo? Some have projected that if you run your clouds and clusters |
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directly on gentoo, you do not need vendors.... but more technical (gentoo) |
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experts. |
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Methinks so! |
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enjoy! |
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James |
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[1] http://www.linaro.org/news/linaro-announces-arm-based-developer-cloud-2/ |
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[2] https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-image-base-os-size-comparison/ |
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